Resistin ist ein Gen, das durch das Symbol RETN kodiert wird. Es ist auch bekannt als: Adipose tissue-specific secretory factor; ADSF; C/EBP-epsilon-regulated myeloid-specific secreted cysteine-rich protein; Cysteine-rich secreted protein A12-alpha-like 2; Cysteine-rich secreted protein FIZZ3; RETN; FIZZ3; HXCP1; RSTN. Resistin hat eine Masse von 11.42kDa und eine Aminosäurelänge von 108.
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Gen- und Proteininformationen
UniProt Zusammenfassung
Hormone that seems to suppress insulin ability to stimulate glucose uptake into adipose cells (By similarity). Potentially links obesity to diabetes (By similarity). Promotes chemotaxis in myeloid cells (PubMed:15064728).
Entrez Zusammenfassung
This gene belongs to the family defined by the mouse resistin-like genes. The characteristic feature of this family is the C-terminal stretch of 10 cys residues with identical spacing. The mouse homolog of this protein is secreted by adipocytes, and may be the hormone potentially linking obesity to type II diabetes. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene.
Gewebespezifität
Expressed in white adipose tissue (at protein level) (PubMed:11201732). Widely expressed, with particularly strong expression in lung, bone marrow, breast and peripheral blood (PubMed:15248836). Expressed strongly in bone marrow and at lower levels in lung, but not detected in other tissues (PubMed:15064728). Isoform 2 is detected in adipose tissue, bone marrow, brain, lung, peripheral blood, placenta and thymus (PubMed:15248836).
Sequenzähnlichkeiten
Belongs to the resistin/FIZZ family.