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FABP4: fatty acid binding protein 4

1 protein, 73 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 3,321 NIH grants and 7,409 papers.

Gene 7

Its symbol and name are HGNC's, unless HGNC and NCBI Gene contradict each other.

FieldValueSource
SymbolFABP4HGNC
Namefatty acid binding protein 4HGNC
NCBI Gene ID2167NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:3559HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000170323NCBI Gene
AliasesA-FABP, AFABP, ALBP, HEL-S-104, aP2NCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

Reviewed human proteins whose Swiss-Prot entry states the gene.

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P15090Fatty acid-binding protein, adipocyte132248Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 73

Patents whose sequence listing holds the protein exactly: the same sequence, by SHA-256, length and CRC-64. A sequence a patent lists is not always one it claims.

PublicationPublishedSEQ ID NOProteinSource
EP 4650780 A22025-11-191563P15090Espacenet
US 12454569 B22025-10-283P15090Espacenet
JP 2025517970 A2025-06-121563P15090Espacenet
JP 2024123008 A2024-09-106188P15090Espacenet
US 12023385 B22024-07-0235P15090Espacenet
US 11896678 B22024-02-1322P15090Espacenet
US 11685774 B22023-06-273P15090Espacenet
EP 4119552 A12023-01-1849P15090Espacenet
US 11446398 B22022-09-2030862P15090Espacenet
US 11345748 B22022-05-311P15090Espacenet

Drugs 0

Drugs a ChEMBL mechanism record says act on the gene's protein, through Open Targets.

DrugChEMBL IDMechanismActionSource

Trials 0

Trials of those drugs. A trial joins the gene only through a drug that acts on it.

TrialDrugPhaseResults first postedSource

NIH grants 3321

NIH projects whose papers are about the gene, through NIH's grant-paper links.

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant172,025NIH's project files
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant142,025NIH's project files
P30DK020572Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC)142,025NIH's project files
R01CA180986E-FABP mediates n-3 fatty acid-induced tumor prevention through epigenetic control of immune cell differentiation and function122,025NIH's project files
P30DK040561Boston Area Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)102,025NIH's project files
R01DK038389Lipid transport in the intestine102,025NIH's project files
P30DK072476Pennington/Louisiana NORC92,025NIH's project files
P51OD011104Tulane National Primate Research Center92,025NIH's project files
P30DK036836Diabetes Research Center82,025NIH's project files
K12HD000849Reproductive Scientist Development Program72,025NIH's project files

Papers 7409

Newest first. Swiss-Prot's references are curated; PubTator's text mining finds papers that name the gene, not always ones about it.

PMIDFound bySource
42825501PubTator, text miningPubMed
42813828PubTator, text miningPubMed
42792895PubTator, text miningPubMed
42772859PubTator, text miningPubMed
42769221PubTator, text miningPubMed
42765067PubTator, text miningPubMed
42762607PubTator, text miningPubMed
42762312PubTator, text miningPubMed
42759595PubTator, text miningPubMed
42750893PubTator, text miningPubMed

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Release gene-search-2026-11-11-0.1.0

ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACT: ClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299 ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

ChEMBL, through Open Targets: CC BY-SA 3.0, for the parts from ChEMBL. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

ClinicalTrials.gov: none stated ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

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GenBank's patent files: GenBank's patent files. NCBI: "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/about/

HGNC: CC0: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/

NCBI Gene: None named for the file. NCBI says information created by or for the US government on its site is in the public domain, and asks that NLM be acknowledged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/

NIH's project files and grant-paper links: Public domain (NIH RePORTER)

Open Targets: CC0 1.0. Open Targets asks that users cite its latest paper: Buniello et al. 2025, Open Targets Platform: facilitating therapeutic hypotheses building in drug discovery, Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1):D1467, PMID 39657122. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

PubTator 3: Public domain

UniProt: CC BY 4.0. UniProt's licence file: "All databases and documents in the UniProt FTP directory may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this copyright statement is reproduced with each copy." UniProt asks that users cite its latest paper: The UniProt Consortium, UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research 53:D609-D617, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010. Read on 9 Nov 2026 at https://www.uniprot.org/help/license