The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Vanin 1 across different species:

vanin 1 (VNN1), vanin 1 (Vnn1), vanin 1 (RCJMB04_35g11), vanin 1 (vnn1), vanin 1 (LOC100217969), vanin 1 (LOC100220807)

Other aliases include:

HDLCQ8, Tiff66, MGC116930, MGC116931, MGC116932, MGC116933, V-1, MGC114385, VNN1, VNN2, VNN3, hdlcq8, tiff66, vnn1.1, vanin-1

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Vanin 1:

pantetheinase – vanin-1 – vannin 1 – pantetheine hydrolase – vascular non-inflammatory molecule 1 – vanin 1 – vanin 2 – vanin 3 – TIFF66 – vanin 1, gene 1

Vanin 1 fulfills a number of functions:

GPI anchor binding – pantetheine hydrolase activity – hydrolase activity – hydrolase activity, acting on carbon-nitrogen (but not peptide) bonds – hydrolase activity, acting on carbon-nitrogen (but not peptide) bonds, in linear amides – molecular_function – endopeptidase inhibitor activity

Vanin 1 is relevant to the following processes:

acute inflammatory response – anti-apoptosis – cell-cell adhesion – cellular component movement – chronic inflammatory response – inflammatory response – innate immune response – nitrogen compound metabolic process – pantothenate metabolic process – positive regulation of T cell differentiation in the thymus – response to oxidative stress – biological_process – positive regulation of T cell differentiation in thymus

Locations for Vanin 1:

anchored to membrane – integral to membrane – plasma membrane – extracellular space – membrane – cellular_component

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology

Vanin 1 (VNN1) ELISA Kit (ABIN432954) cited in Toxicology

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