Also known as MCOPCB10, RDCCAS, retinol binding protein 4
protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
This protein belongs to the lipocalin family and is the specific carrier for retinol (vitamin A alcohol) in the blood. It delivers retinol from the liver stores to the peripheral tissues. In plasma, the RBP-retinol complex interacts with transthyretin which prevents its loss by filtration through the kidney glomeruli. A deficiency of vitamin A blocks secretion of the binding protein posttranslationally and results in defective delivery and supply to the epidermal cells. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).