long palate, lung & nasal epithelium carcinoma-associated protein 3; BPI fold-containing family B member 3; ligand-binding protein RYA3 (BPIFB3, C20orf185, LPLUNC3)

Function: 1) recognition & binding of specific classes of odorants 2) carrier protein, transporting odorants across the mucus layer to access receptor sites (putative) 3) primary defense mechanism: (putative) recognition & removal from the mucosa of a) potentially harmful odorants b) pathogenic microorganisms 4) clearing excess odorant from mucus to enable new odorant stimuli to be received Structure: - belongs to the BPI/LBP/plunc superfamily, BPI/LBP family Compartment: secreted Expression: expressed in nasal septal epithelium

General

glycoprotein long palate, lung & nasal epithelium carcinoma-associated protein; BPI fold-containing family B (LPLUNC)

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 476 aa MW = 50 kD COMPARTMENT: cytoplasm MOTIF: signal sequence {1-20} N-glycosylation site {N142} N-glycosylation site {N288} N-glycosylation site {N457}

Database Correlations

UniProt P59826 PFAM correlations Entrez Gene 359710 Kegg hsa:359710

References

UniProt :accession P59826