FIBP, Official Symbol FIBPprovided by HGNC Official Full Name FGF1 intracellular binding proteinprovided by HGNC Primary source HGNC:HGNC:3705 See related Ensembl:ENSG00000172500 MIM:608296; AllianceGenome:HGNC:3705 Gene type protein coding RefSeq status REVIEWED Organism Homo sapiens Lineage Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo Also known as FGFIBP; FIBP-1; TROFAS Summary Acidic fibroblast growth factor is mitogenic for a variety of different cell types and acts by stimulating mitogenesis or inducing morphological changes and differentiation. The FIBP protein is an intracellular protein that binds selectively to acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF). It is postulated that FIBP may be involved in the mitogenic action of aFGF. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] Expression Ubiquitous expression in testis (RPKM 27.1), brain (RPKM 21.5) and 25 other tissues See more Orthologs mouse all