OSBPL2

This gene encodes a member of the oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) family, a group of intracellular lipid receptors. Most members contain an N-terminal pleckstrin homology domain and a highly conserved C-terminal OSBP-like sterol-binding domain, although the encoded protein contains only the sterol-binding domain. In vitro studies have shown that the encoded protein can bind strongly to phosphatic acid and weakly to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, but cannot bind to 25-hydroxycholesterol. The protein associates with the Golgi apparatus. Transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2014]

Description

Oxysterol binding protein like 2

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Disease related genes
Human disease related genes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

20 (62231922 - 62296213)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000130703  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Osbpl2: ENSMUSG00000039050

UniProt

Q9H1P3

neXtProt

NX_Q9H1P3

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure