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Enoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase [NADH] FabI

fabIP0AEK4Escherichia coli (strain K12)Swiss-Prot
5
Clinical trials
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Drugs targeting

Protein at a glance

Biological role

Enoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase (NADH)

Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.

Protein profile

UniProt 2026_02

Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.

Function overview

Catalyzes the reduction of a carbon-carbon double bond in an enoyl moiety that is covalently linked to an acyl carrier protein (ACP).

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Catalyzes the reduction of a carbon-carbon double bond in an enoyl moiety that is covalently linked to an acyl carrier protein (ACP). Involved in the elongation cycle of fatty acid which are used in the lipid metabolism and in the biotin biosynthesis

Domains and Gene Ontology detail (12)

Gene Ontology

  • Ccatalytic complex
  • Ccytosol
  • Cmembrane
  • Cprotein-containing complex
  • Fenoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase (NADH) activity
  • Fidentical protein binding
  • FNADH binding
  • Pbiotin biosynthetic process
  • Pfatty acid elongation
  • Plipid biosynthetic process
  • Pprotein homotetramerization
  • Presponse to antibiotic

262 aa · 28 kDa

Biological roles

What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.

Lipid & lipoprotein metabolismUniProt · GO
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Lipid & lipoprotein metabolism

  • ·Catalyzes the reduction of a carbon-carbon double bond in an enoyl moiety that is covale…
  • ·fatty acid elongation

Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.

Drugs targeting this protein

1

How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.

Triclosan
Narrow target profileInhibitor

Bacterial enoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase inhibitor

Direct interaction with this protein · Only this protein recorded as a target

ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.

Clinical trials

5

Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.

View all trials (1)

UNKNOWN · via Triclosan · NCT00763165

ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.

What's happening now

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Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for a drug that targets this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.

  1. New publication2025-06-17
    Effects of triclosan on cytokine production by human immune cells in vitro.

    Environment international · 2025 · 4 citations · Europe PMC · via Triclosan

Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.