solute carrier family 27 member 3 (SLC27A3, long-chain fatty acid transport protein 3, fatty acid transport protein 3, FATP-3, very long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase homolog 3, VLCS-3, ACSVL3, FATP3, UNQ367/PRO703)

Function

• acyl-CoA ligase activity for:
  • long-chain fatty acids
  • very long-chain fatty acids
• no fatty acid transport activity

Structure

• belongs to the ATP-dependent AMP-binding enzyme family

Compartment

mitochondrial membrane (putative)

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Notes

uncertain whether Met-1 or Met-48 is the initiator

More general terms

• solute carrier family 27 (SLC27, SLC27A)
• transmembrane 2 protein
• mitochondrial protein
• ligase or synthetase

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:1100
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/604193
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q5K4L6.html