Fatty Acid Transport Proteins
"Fatty Acid Transport Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A broad category of membrane transport proteins that specifically transport FREE FATTY ACIDS across cellular membranes. They play an important role in LIPID METABOLISM in CELLS that utilize free fatty acids as an energy source.
| Descriptor ID |
D050612
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.157.530.300 D12.776.543.585.300
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