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Due to its chemical instability and low solubility in aqueous solution, vitamin A requires cellular retinol-binding proteins (CRBPs), such as RBP7, for stability, internalization, intercellular transfer, homeostasis, and metabolism.[supplied by OMIM, May 2004]