Protein Name cell death inducing DFFA like effector c
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 63924
Gene Symbol

CIDEC

UniProt Q96AQ7 (CIDEC_HUMAN), A0A0A0MRY9 (A0A0A0MRY9_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 30
Total Number of Articles : 33
Description

cell death inducing DFFA like effector c

Gene Summary

This gene encodes a member of the cell death-inducing DNA fragmentation factor-like effector family. Members of this family play important roles in apoptosis. The encoded protein promotes lipid droplet formation in adipocytes and may mediate adipocyte apoptosis. This gene is regulated by insulin and its expression is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity. Mutations in this gene may contribute to insulin resistant diabetes. A pseudogene of this gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 3. Alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different isoforms have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]

synonyms
  • lipid transferase CIDEC
  • cell death activator CIDE-3
  • fat specific protein 27
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