Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.3.0)
Enables protein sequestering activity and protein-macromolecule adaptor activity. Involved in negative regulation of triglyceride catabolic process. Acts upstream of or within cellular response to cold and lipid catabolic process. Located in cytosol. Is active in lipid droplet. Is expressed in blood vessel and connective tissue. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in familial partial lipodystrophy type 4 and obesity. Orthologous to human PLIN1 (perilipin 1).
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