Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Q9BWW8 (APOL6_HUMAN)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Apolipoprotein L6
Alternative name(s):
    Apolipoprotein L-VI
      Short name=ApoL-VI

Gene names

Name:	APOL6
ORF Names:	UNQ3095/PRO21341

Organism

Homo sapiens (Human) [Complete proteome]

Taxonomic identifier

9606 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Eukaryota › Metazoa › Chordata › Craniata › Vertebrata › Euteleostomi › Mammalia › Eutheria › Euarchontoglires › Primates › Haplorrhini › Catarrhini › Hominidae › Homo

Protein attributes

Sequence length	343 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is not processed.
Protein existence	Evidence at transcript level.

General annotation (Comments)

Function	May affect the movement of lipids in the cytoplasm or allow the binding of lipids to organelles.
Subcellular location	Cytoplasm Probable.
Tissue specificity	Widely expressed; highly expressed in the uterus, fetal brain and spinal cord, also detected in heart, liver, lung, colon, spleen, thymus, prostate, placenta, adrenal gland, salivary and mammary gland.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the apolipoprotein L family.

Ontologies

Keywords
Biological process	Lipid transport Transport
Cellular component	Cytoplasm
Coding sequence diversity	Polymorphism
Technical term	Complete proteome
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	lipid transport Non-traceable author statement. Source: UniProtKB lipoprotein metabolic process Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro
Cellular component	cytoplasm Non-traceable author statement. Source: UniProtKB extracellular region Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro
Molecular function	lipid binding Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro lipid transporter activity Non-traceable author statement. Source: UniProtKB
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)

	Feature key	Position(s)	Length	Description	Graphical view	Feature identifier
Molecule processing
	Chain	1 – 343	343	Apolipoprotein L6		PRO_0000137604
Natural variations
	Natural variant	173	1	N → K: dbSNP rs5999923. Ref.4		VAR_053013

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	Q9BWW8-1 [UniParc]. Last modified June 1, 2001. Version 1. Checksum: 9101D15ABAE71CDE	FASTA	343	38,128
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MDNQAERESE AGVGLQRDED DAPLCEDVEL QDGDLSPEEK IFLREFPRLK EDLKGNIDKL 70 80 90 100 110 120 RALADDIDKT HKKFTKANMV ATSTAVISGV MSLLGLALAP ATGGGSLLLS TAGQGLATAA 130 140 150 160 170 180 GVTSIVSGTL ERSKNKEAQA RAEDILPTYD QEDREDEEEK ADYVTAAGKI IYNLRNTLKY 190 200 210 220 230 240 AKKNVRAFWK LRANPRLANA TKRLLTTGQV SSRSRVQVQK AFAGTTLAMT KNARVLGGVM 250 260 270 280 290 300 SAFSLGYDLA TLSKEWKHLK EGARTKFAEE LRAKALELER KLTELTQLYK SLQQKVRSRA 310 320 330 340 RGVGKDLTGT CETEAYWKEL REHVWMWLWL CVCLCVCVYV QFT

References

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[1]	"The human apolipoprotein L gene cluster: identification, classification, and sites of distribution." Page N.M., Butlin D.J., Lomthaisong K., Lowry P.J. Genomics 74:71-78(2001) [PubMed: 11374903] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA]. Tissue: Placenta.
[2]	"The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment." Clark H.F., Gurney A.L., Abaya E., Baker K., Baldwin D.T., Brush J., Chen J., Chow B., Chui C., Crowley C., Currell B., Deuel B., Dowd P., Eaton D., Foster J.S., Grimaldi C., Gu Q., Hass P.E. , Heldens S., Huang A., Kim H.S., Klimowski L., Jin Y., Johnson S., Lee J., Lewis L., Liao D., Mark M.R., Robbie E., Sanchez C., Schoenfeld J., Seshagiri S., Simmons L., Singh J., Smith V., Stinson J., Vagts A., Vandlen R.L., Watanabe C., Wieand D., Woods K., Xie M.-H., Yansura D.G., Yi S., Yu G., Yuan J., Zhang M., Zhang Z., Goddard A.D., Wood W.I., Godowski P.J., Gray A.M. Genome Res. 13:2265-2270(2003) [PubMed: 12975309] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA].
[3]	"A genome annotation-driven approach to cloning the human ORFeome." Collins J.E., Wright C.L., Edwards C.A., Davis M.P., Grinham J.A., Cole C.G., Goward M.E., Aguado B., Mallya M., Mokrab Y., Huckle E.J., Beare D.M., Dunham I. Genome Biol. 5:R84.1-R84.11(2004) [PubMed: 15461802] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA].
[4]	"The full-ORF clone resource of the German cDNA consortium." Bechtel S., Rosenfelder H., Duda A., Schmidt C.P., Ernst U., Wellenreuther R., Mehrle A., Schuster C., Bahr A., Bloecker H., Heubner D., Hoerlein A., Michel G., Wedler H., Koehrer K., Ottenwaelder B., Poustka A., Wiemann S., Schupp I. BMC Genomics 8:399-399(2007) [PubMed: 17974005] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA], VARIANT LYS-173. Tissue: Lymph node.
[5]	"The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22." Dunham I., Hunt A.R., Collins J.E., Bruskiewich R., Beare D.M., Clamp M., Smink L.J., Ainscough R., Almeida J.P., Babbage A.K., Bagguley C., Bailey J., Barlow K.F., Bates K.N., Beasley O.P., Bird C.P., Blakey S.E., Bridgeman A.M. , Buck D., Burgess J., Burrill W.D., Burton J., Carder C., Carter N.P., Chen Y., Clark G., Clegg S.M., Cobley V.E., Cole C.G., Collier R.E., Connor R., Conroy D., Corby N.R., Coville G.J., Cox A.V., Davis J., Dawson E., Dhami P.D., Dockree C., Dodsworth S.J., Durbin R.M., Ellington A.G., Evans K.L., Fey J.M., Fleming K., French L., Garner A.A., Gilbert J.G.R., Goward M.E., Grafham D.V., Griffiths M.N.D., Hall C., Hall R.E., Hall-Tamlyn G., Heathcott R.W., Ho S., Holmes S., Hunt S.E., Jones M.C., Kershaw J., Kimberley A.M., King A., Laird G.K., Langford C.F., Leversha M.A., Lloyd C., Lloyd D.M., Martyn I.D., Mashreghi-Mohammadi M., Matthews L.H., Mccann O.T., Mcclay J., Mclaren S., McMurray A.A., Milne S.A., Mortimore B.J., Odell C.N., Pavitt R., Pearce A.V., Pearson D., Phillimore B.J.C.T., Phillips S.H., Plumb R.W., Ramsay H., Ramsey Y., Rogers L., Ross M.T., Scott C.E., Sehra H.K., Skuce C.D., Smalley S., Smith M.L., Soderlund C., Spragon L., Steward C.A., Sulston J.E., Swann R.M., Vaudin M., Wall M., Wallis J.M., Whiteley M.N., Willey D.L., Williams L., Williams S.A., Williamson H., Wilmer T.E., Wilming L., Wright C.L., Hubbard T., Bentley D.R., Beck S., Rogers J., Shimizu N., Minoshima S., Kawasaki K., Sasaki T., Asakawa S., Kudoh J., Shintani A., Shibuya K., Yoshizaki Y., Aoki N., Mitsuyama S., Roe B.A., Chen F., Chu L., Crabtree J., Deschamps S., Do A., Do T., Dorman A., Fang F., Fu Y., Hu P., Hua A., Kenton S., Lai H., Lao H.I., Lewis J., Lewis S., Lin S.-P., Loh P., Malaj E., Nguyen T., Pan H., Phan S., Qi S., Qian Y., Ray L., Ren Q., Shaull S., Sloan D., Song L., Wang Q., Wang Y., Wang Z., White J., Willingham D., Wu H., Yao Z., Zhan M., Zhang G., Chissoe S., Murray J., Miller N., Minx P., Fulton R., Johnson D., Bemis G., Bentley D., Bradshaw H., Bourne S., Cordes M., Du Z., Fulton L., Goela D., Graves T., Hawkins J., Hinds K., Kemp K., Latreille P., Layman D., Ozersky P., Rohlfing T., Scheet P., Walker C., Wamsley A., Wohldmann P., Pepin K., Nelson J., Korf I., Bedell J.A., Hillier L.W., Mardis E., Waterston R., Wilson R., Emanuel B.S., Shaikh T., Kurahashi H., Saitta S., Budarf M.L., McDermid H.E., Johnson A., Wong A.C.C., Morrow B.E., Edelmann L., Kim U.J., Shizuya H., Simon M.I., Dumanski J.P., Peyrard M., Kedra D., Seroussi E., Fransson I., Tapia I., Bruder C.E., O'Brien K.P., Wilkinson P., Bodenteich A., Hartman K., Hu X., Khan A.S., Lane L., Tilahun Y., Wright H. Nature 402:489-495(1999) [PubMed: 10591208] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[6]	"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004) [PubMed: 15489334] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Lymph.
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Cross-references

Sequence databases
EMBLGenBankDDBJ	AY014879 mRNA. Translation: AAK07724.1. AY358210 mRNA. Translation: AAQ88577.1. CR456381 mRNA. Translation: CAG30267.1. AL834420 mRNA. Translation: CAH56356.1. Z79996 Genomic DNA. Translation: CAI18758.1. BC038950 mRNA. Translation: AAH38950.2. BC047864 mRNA. Translation: AAH47864.1.
IPI	IPI00032679.
RefSeq	NP_085144.1.
UniGene	Hs.257352
3D structure databases
ModBase	Search...
Protein-protein interaction databases
STRING	Q9BWW8.
Proteomic databases
PRIDE	Q9BWW8.
Genome annotation databases
Ensembl	ENST00000409652; ENSP00000386280; ENSG00000221963; Homo sapiens. [Genome view]
GeneID	80830.
KEGG	hsa:80830.
UCSC	uc003aoe.1. human.
Organism-specific databases
CTD	80830.
GeneCards	GC22P034368.
H-InvDB	HIX0023087.
HGNC	HGNC:14870. APOL6.
MIM	607256. gene.
PharmGKB	PA24909.
GenAtlas	Search...
Phylogenomic databases
HOGENOM	HBG100239.
HOVERGEN	Q9BWW8.
InParanoid	Q9BWW8.
OMA	KIFLREF.
OrthoDB	EOG99PDHS.
Gene expression databases
ArrayExpress	Q9BWW8.
Bgee	Q9BWW8.
CleanEx	HS_APOL6.
Genevestigator	Q9BWW8.
GermOnline	ENSG00000170420. Homo sapiens.
Family and domain databases
InterPro	IPR008405. ApoL. [Graphical view]
PANTHER	PTHR14096. ApoL. 1 hit.
Pfam	PF05461. ApoL. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
ProtoNet	Search...
Other Resources
NextBio	71240.
SOURCE	Search...

Entry information

Entry name

APOL6_HUMAN

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: Q9BWW8
Secondary accession number(s): Q5R3S1 , Q658J1, Q8IXX6, Q9UGG1

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	August 29, 2001
Last sequence update:	June 1, 2001
Last modified:	December 15, 2009
This is version 66 of the entry and version 1 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HPI (Human Proteome Initiative)

Disclaimer

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