| Protein Name | NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1 homolog 2 |
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| Organism | Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Gene ID | 176165 |
| Gene Symbol | ncr-2 |
| UniProt | P34389 (NPC1B_CAEEL) |
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Total Number of Articles : 1 |
Description |
NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1 homolog 2 |
| Gene Summary |
Involved in cholesterol homeostasis; cholesterol transport; and nematode larval development. Predicted to be located in membrane. Predicted to be integral component of membrane. Is expressed in XXXL; XXXR; gonadal sheath cell; spermatheca; and ventral nerve cord. Used to study Niemann-Pick disease. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Niemann-Pick disease type C1. Orthologous to human NPC1 (NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022] |
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