ID:BPIB4_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=BPI fold-containing family B member 4; AltName: Full=Ligand-binding protein RY2G5; AltName: Full=Long palate, lung and nasal epithelium carcinoma-associated protein 4; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: May have the capacity to recognize and bind specific classes of odorants. May act as a carrier molecule, transporting odorants across the mucus layer to access receptor sites. May serve as a primary defense mechanism by recognizing and removing potentially harmful odorants or pathogenic microorganisms from the mucosa or clearing excess odorant from mucus to enable new odorant stimuli to be received (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted (By similarity). Cytoplasm. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed in nasal tissue. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the BPI/LBP/Plunc superfamily. BPI/LBP family. SEQUENCE CAUTION: Sequence=CAI22532.1; Type=Erroneous gene model prediction;
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P59827
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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Common Gene Haplotype Alleles 
