| Name | nuclear pore complex interacting protein family, member A8 |
| Summary |
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Its apparent lack of conventional acyl transfer activity suggests that CPT1C’s primary function in cancer may be to integrate metabolic signals rather than to catalyze fatty acid oxidation."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "1", "end_ref": "3"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nWithin the central nervous system, CPT1C plays an indispensable role in energy homeostasis and the regulation of feeding behavior. Through its high‐affinity binding to malonyl‐CoA in hypothalamic neurons, CPT1C modulates the balance of orexigenic and anorexigenic signals. For instance, CPT1C is required for ghrelin’s orexigenic effects and for leptin’s appetite‐suppressing actions, with alterations in its function leading to significant changes in food intake, body weight, and fuel substrate partitioning. 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Its regulatory action on ceramide metabolism—as well as its interactions with components of the endocannabinoid system—further underscore its role in maintaining neuronal integrity, with deficiencies linked to impaired spatial learning, altered oscillatory activity, and progressive motor deficits. Collectively, these findings highlight CPT1C as a multifunctional protein that integrates metabolic signals with neural function in both disease and physiological contexts."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "13", "end_ref": "19"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "rg", "children": [{"type": "r", "ref": 1, "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "Kathrin Zaugg, Yi Yao, Patrick T Reilly, et al. 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| Synonyms | NPIPA7, LCR16A9 |
| Proteins | NPIA8_HUMAN |
| NCBI Gene ID | 101059953 |
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NPIPA8 has 1,810 functional associations with biological entities spanning 5 categories (functional term, phrase or reference, disease, phenotype or trait, chemical, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA) extracted from 16 datasets.
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| Dataset | Summary | |
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| Allen Brain Atlas Aging Dementia and Traumatic Brain Injury Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles | tissue samples with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other tissue samples from the Allen Brain Atlas Aging Dementia and Traumatic Brain Injury Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas | gene perturbations changing expression of NPIPA8 gene from the CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas dataset. | |
| COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 | cellular components co-occuring with NPIPA8 protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles | tissues with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles | tissue samples with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other tissue samples from the GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| GWAS Catalog SNP-Phenotype Associations 2025 | phenotypes associated with NPIPA8 gene in GWAS datasets from the GWAS Catalog SNP-Phenotype Associations 2025 dataset. | |
| HPA Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles | cell lines with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other cell lines from the HPA Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| HPA Tissue Gene Expression Profiles | tissues with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other tissues from the HPA Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| HPA Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles | tissue samples with high or low expression of NPIPA8 gene relative to other tissue samples from the HPA Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets 2025 | transcription factors regulating expression of NPIPA8 gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| NIBR DRUG-seq U2OS MoA Box Gene Expression Profiles | drug perturbations changing expression of NPIPA8 gene from the NIBR DRUG-seq U2OS MoA Box dataset. | |
| Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 | transcription factors regulating expression of NPIPA8 gene from the Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures | drug perturbations changing expression of NPIPA8 gene from the RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures | gene perturbations changing expression of NPIPA8 gene from the RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues with high expression of NPIPA8 protein in proteomics datasets from the TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues co-occuring with NPIPA8 protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |