CHARACTERISTICS OF HEART FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEIN (H-FABP)

U. Kaczor, M. Antkiewicz, A. Kozubska-Soboci?ska, B. Danielak-Czech, M. Sharan

Fatty acid binding proteins (FABP) play a role in fatty acid metabolism, especially in the uptake and intracellular transport of fatty acids to ?-oxidation sites and to sites of triacylglycerol and phospholipid synthesis. Heart fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP) is the most widely distributed protein of the FABP family. A search for polymorphisms in the H-FABP gene locus led to the identification in pigs of substitution in coding and non-coding sequences, but did not conclusively show their relationship with meat parameters.

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