Fatty acid binding protein 7, brain  (FABP7 ; also brain lipid binding protein , BLBP ), is a human gene .[ 5] 
Function 
The protein encoded by this gene is a brain fatty acid binding protein. Fatty acid binding proteins  (FABPs) are a family  of small, highly conserved, cytoplasmic  proteins that bind long-chain fatty acids and other hydrophobic ligands. FABPs are thought to play roles in fatty acid  uptake, transport, and metabolism.[ 5] 
FABP7 is expressed, during development, in radial glia  by the activation of Notch  receptors.[ 6] Reelin  was shown to induce FABP7 expression in neural progenitor cells  via Notch-1  activation.[ 7] 
According to one study, FABP7 binds DHA  with the highest affinity  among all of the FABPs.[ 8] 
Expression of Fabp7 protein in mouse brains at embryonic day 16 (left) and postnatal day 0 (right). At both stages, Fabp7 is strongly expressed in the ventricular zone and radial glia , where neurogenesis  is prominent. 
Role in pathology 
FABP7 maps onto human chromosome 6q22.31, a schizophrenia linkage  region corroborated by a meta-analysis.[ 9] 
As of 2008, two studies have been conducted into FABP7 as a possible risk gene for schizophrenia ,[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] prepulse inhibition  in mice; deficit in PPI is an endophenotypic  trait observed in schizophrenia patients and their relatives.
References 
^ a b c   GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000164434  – Ensembl , May 2017^ a b c   GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000019874  – Ensembl , May 2017^ "Human PubMed Reference:" . National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine .^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:" . National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine .^ a b   "Entrez Gene: FABP7 fatty acid binding protein 7, brain" .^ Anthony TE, Mason HA, Gridley T, Fishell G, Heintz N (May 2005). "Brain lipid-binding protein is a direct target of Notch signaling in radial glial cells" . Genes & Development . 19  (9): 1028– 33. doi :10.1101/gad.1302105 . PMC  1091737 PMID  15879553 . ^ Keilani S, Sugaya K (July 2008). "Reelin induces a radial glial phenotype in human neural progenitor cells by activation of Notch-1" . BMC Developmental Biology . 8  (1): 69. doi :10.1186/1471-213X-8-69 PMC  2447831 PMID  18593473 . ^ Xu LZ, Sánchez R, Sali A, Heintz N (Oct 1996). "Ligand specificity of brain lipid-binding protein" . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . 271  (40): 24711– 9. doi :10.1074/jbc.271.40.24711 PMID  8798739 . ^ Lewis CM, Levinson DF, Wise LH, DeLisi LE, Straub RE, Hovatta I, Williams NM, Schwab SG, Pulver AE, Faraone SV, Brzustowicz LM, Kaufmann CA, Garver DL, Gurling HM, Lindholm E, Coon H, Moises HW, Byerley W, Shaw SH, Mesen A, Sherrington R, O'Neill FA, Walsh D, Kendler KS, Ekelund J, Paunio T, Lönnqvist J, Peltonen L, O'Donovan MC, Owen MJ, Wildenauer DB, Maier W, Nestadt G, Blouin JL, Antonarakis SE, Mowry BJ, Silverman JM, Crowe RR, Cloninger CR, Tsuang MT, Malaspina D, Harkavy-Friedman JM, Svrakic DM, Bassett AS, Holcomb J, Kalsi G, McQuillin A, Brynjolfson J, Sigmundsson T, Petursson H, Jazin E, Zoëga T, Helgason T (Jul 2003). "Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part II: Schizophrenia" . American Journal of Human Genetics . 73  (1): 34– 48. doi :10.1086/376549 . PMC  1180588 PMID  12802786 . ^ Gene Overview of All Published Schizophrenia-Association Studies for FABP7  - SZGene database at Schizophrenia Research Forum website.^ Jungerius BJ, Hoogendoorn ML, Bakker SC, Van't Slot R, Bardoel AF, Ophoff RA, Wijmenga C, Kahn RS, Sinke RJ (Nov 2008). "An association screen of myelin-related genes implicates the chromosome 22q11 PIK4CA gene in schizophrenia" . Molecular Psychiatry . 13  (11): 1060– 8. doi :10.1038/sj.mp.4002080 PMID  17893707 . ^ Watanabe A, Toyota T, Owada Y, Hayashi T, Iwayama Y, Matsumata M, Ishitsuka Y, Nakaya A, Maekawa M, Ohnishi T, Arai R, Sakurai K, Yamada K, Kondo H, Hashimoto K, Osumi N, Yoshikawa T (Nov 2007). "Fabp7 maps to a quantitative trait locus for a schizophrenia endophenotype" . PLOS Biology . 5  (11): e297. doi :10.1371/journal.pbio.0050297 PMC  2071943 PMID  18001149 .   
Further reading 
Börchers T, Hohoff C, Buhlmann C, Spener F (Jul 1997). "Heart-type fatty acid binding protein - involvement in growth inhibition and differentiation". Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Essential Fatty Acids . 57  (1): 77– 84. doi :10.1016/S0952-3278(97)90496-8 . PMID  9250612 . Xu LZ, Sánchez R, Sali A, Heintz N (Oct 1996). "Ligand specificity of brain lipid-binding protein" . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . 271  (40): 24711– 9. doi :10.1074/jbc.271.40.24711 PMID  8798739 . Young JK, Baker JH, Muller T (Mar 1996). "Immunoreactivity for brain-fatty acid binding protein in gomori-positive astrocytes". Glia . 16  (3): 218– 26. doi :10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199603)16:3<218::AID-GLIA4>3.0.CO;2-Y . PMID  8833192 . S2CID  9757285 . Shi YE, Ni J, Xiao G, Liu YE, Fuchs A, Yu G, Su J, Cosgrove JM, Xing L, Zhang M, Li J, Aggarwal BB, Meager A, Gentz R (Aug 1997). "Antitumor activity of the novel human breast cancer growth inhibitor, mammary-derived growth inhibitor-related gene, MRG". Cancer Research . 57  (15): 3084– 91. PMID  9242429 . Shimizu F, Watanabe TK, Shinomiya H, Nakamura Y, Fujiwara T (Oct 1997). "Isolation and expression of a cDNA for human brain fatty acid-binding protein (B-FABP)". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression . 1354  (1): 24– 8. doi :10.1016/S0167-4781(97)00115-2 . PMID  9375786 . Godbout R, Bisgrove DA, Shkolny D, Day RS (Apr 1998). "Correlation of B-FABP and GFAP expression in malignant glioma" . Oncogene . 16  (15): 1955– 62. doi :10.1038/sj.onc.1201740 PMID  9591779 . Pu L, Igbavboa U, Wood WG, Roths JB, Kier AB, Spener F, Schroeder F (Aug 1999). "Expression of fatty acid binding proteins is altered in aged mouse brain". Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry . 198  (1– 2): 69– 78. doi :10.1023/A:1006946027619 . PMID  10497880 . S2CID  6180992 . Balendiran GK, Schnutgen F, Scapin G, Borchers T, Xhong N, Lim K, Godbout R, Spener F, Sacchettini JC (Sep 2000). "Crystal structure and thermodynamic analysis of human brain fatty acid-binding protein" . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . 275  (35): 27045– 54. doi :10.1074/jbc.M003001200 PMID  10854433 . Rademacher M, Zimmerman AW, Rüterjans H, Veerkamp JH, Lücke C (Oct 2002). "Solution structure of fatty acid-binding protein from human brain". Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry . 239  (1– 2): 61– 8. doi :10.1023/A:1020566909213 . PMID  12479569 . S2CID  24296178 . Miller SJ, Li H, Rizvi TA, Huang Y, Johansson G, Bowersock J, Sidani A, Vitullo J, Vogel K, Parysek LM, DeClue JE, Ratner N (Mar 2003). "Brain lipid binding protein in axon-Schwann cell interactions and peripheral nerve tumorigenesis" . Molecular and Cellular Biology . 23  (6): 2213– 24. doi :10.1128/MCB.23.6.2213-2224.2003 . PMC  149461 PMID  12612091 . Sánchez-Font MF, Bosch-Comas A, Gonzàlez-Duarte R, Marfany G (Jun 2003). "Overexpression of FABP7 in Down syndrome fetal brains is associated with PKNOX1 gene-dosage imbalance" . Nucleic Acids Research . 31  (11): 2769– 77. doi :10.1093/nar/gkg396 . PMC  156729 PMID  12771203 . Wang M, Liu YE, Goldberg ID, Shi YE (Nov 2003). "Induction of mammary gland differentiation in transgenic mice by the fatty acid-binding protein MRG" . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . 278  (47): 47319– 25. doi :10.1074/jbc.M308131200 PMID  12975368 . Liang Y, Diehn M, Watson N, Bollen AW, Aldape KD, Nicholas MK, Lamborn KR , Berger MS, Botstein D, Brown PO, Israel MA (Apr 2005). "Gene expression profiling reveals molecularly and clinically distinct subtypes of glioblastoma multiforme" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 102  (16): 5814– 9. Bibcode :2005PNAS..102.5814L . doi :10.1073/pnas.0402870102 PMC  556127 PMID  15827123 . Liang Y, Bollen AW, Aldape KD, Gupta N (2006). "Nuclear FABP7 immunoreactivity is preferentially expressed in infiltrative glioma and is associated with poor prognosis in EGFR-overexpressing glioblastoma" . BMC Cancer . 6 : 97. doi :10.1186/1471-2407-6-97 PMC  1479358 PMID  16623952 . Kaloshi G, Mokhtari K, Carpentier C, Taillibert S, Lejeune J, Marie Y, Delattre JY, Godbout R, Sanson M (Sep 2007). "FABP7 expression in glioblastomas: relation to prognosis, invasion and EGFR status". Journal of Neuro-Oncology . 84  (3): 245– 8. doi :10.1007/s11060-007-9377-4 . PMID  17415524 . S2CID  23880935 . Takaoka N, Takayama T, Teratani T, Sugiyama T, Mugiya S, Ozono S (2011). "Analysis of the regulation of fatty acid binding protein 7 expression in human renal carcinoma cell lines" . BMC Molecular Biology . 12  (1): 31. doi :10.1186/1471-2199-12-31 PMC  3162894 PMID  21771320 .  
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			1fdq : CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN BRAIN FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN
		 
		
			
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			1jjx : Solution Structure of Recombinant Human Brain-type Fatty acid Binding Protein