Acyl-coenzyme A thioesterase 12 or StAR-related lipid transfer protein 15 (STARD15) is an
enzyme
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that in
human
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s is encoded by the ''ACOT12''
gene
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.
The protein contains a
StAR-related lipid transfer domain.
References
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PDBe-KBprovides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Acetyl-coenzyme A thioesterase
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{{Thioesterases
Human proteins