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Literature on MBOAT4

MBOAT4 [ENSP00000314196]

Ghrelin O-acyltransferase; Mediates the octanoylation of ghrelin at 'Ser-3'. Can use a variety of fatty acids as substrates including octanoic acid, decanoic acid and tetradecanoic acid; Belongs to the membrane-bound acyltransferase family.

Synonyms:  MBOAT4,  MBOAT4p,  hMBOAT4,  Q96T53,  Q96T53p ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt  OMIM

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.