BPIFB4

BPI fold containing family B, member 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BPIFB4 gene.[5]

BPIFB4
Identifiers
Aliases	BPIFB4, C20orf186, LPLUNC4, RY2G5, dJ726C3.5, BPI fold containing family B member 4
External IDs	OMIM: 615718 MGI: 2685852 HomoloGene: 66971 GeneCards: BPIFB4
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 20 (human)[1] Band 20q11.21 Start 33,079,644 bp[1] End 33,111,751 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 2 (mouse)[2] Band 2|2 H1 Start 153,938,221 bp[2] End 153,964,101 bp[2]
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	149954	381399
Ensembl	ENSG00000186191	ENSMUSG00000074665
UniProt	P59827	A2BGH0
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_182519	NM_001034875
RefSeq (protein)	NP_872325	NP_001030047
Location (UCSC)	Chr 20: 33.08 – 33.11 Mb	Chr 2: 153.94 – 153.96 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000186191 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000074665 - Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. "Entrez Gene: BPI fold containing family B, member 4".

Further reading

• Bingle CD, Craven CJ (August 2003). "Comparative analysis of the PLUNC (palate, lung and nasal epithelium clone) protein families". Biochemical Society Transactions. 31 (Pt 4): 806–9. doi:10.1042/bst0310806. PMID 12887310.
• Andrault JB, Gaillard I, Giorgi D, Rouquier S (August 2003). "Expansion of the BPI family by duplication on human chromosome 20: characterization of the RY gene cluster in 20q11.21 encoding olfactory transporters/antimicrobial-like peptides". Genomics. 82 (2): 172–84. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00102-2. PMID 12837268.
• Bingle CD, Seal RL, Craven CJ (August 2011). "Systematic nomenclature for the PLUNC/PSP/BSP30/SMGB proteins as a subfamily of the BPI fold-containing superfamily". Biochemical Society Transactions. 39 (4): 977–83. doi:10.1042/BST0390977. PMC 3196848. PMID 21787333.
• Bingle CD, Craven CJ (April 2002). "PLUNC: a novel family of candidate host defence proteins expressed in the upper airways and nasopharynx". Human Molecular Genetics. 11 (8): 937–43. doi:10.1093/hmg/11.8.937. PMID 11971875.