Tags: Protein.
Prohibitin also known as PHB is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PHB gene.The Phb gene has also been described in animals fungi plants and unicellular eukaryotes. Prohibitins are divided in two classes termed Type-I and Type-II prohibitins based on their similarity to yeast PHB1 and PHB2 respectively. Each organism has at least one copy of each type of prohibitin gene.