SLC2A6

Solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC2A6 gene.^[5][6]

SLC2A6
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC2A6, GLUT6, GLUT9, HSA011372, solute carrier family 2 member 6
External IDs	OMIM: 606813; MGI: 2443286; HomoloGene: 69236; GeneCards: SLC2A6; OMA:SLC2A6 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 9 (human)[1] Band 9q34.2 Start 133,471,094 bp[1] End 133,479,127 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 2 (mouse)[2] Band 2|2 A3 Start 26,911,375 bp[2] End 26,918,010 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in granulocyte monocyte prefrontal cortex right frontal lobe primary visual cortex Brodmann area 9 blood superior frontal gyrus anterior cingulate cortex Hypothalamus Top expressed in granulocyte lumbar spinal ganglion dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell primary visual cortex superior frontal gyrus facial motor nucleus blood cerebellar cortex morula embryo More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function glucose transmembrane transporter activity carbohydrate:proton symporter activity transmembrane transporter activity transporter activity D-glucose transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane integral component of plasma membrane Biological process carbohydrate transport glucose import transmembrane transport hexose transmembrane transport proton transmembrane transport glucose transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 11182 227659 Ensembl ENSG00000160326 ENSG00000281165 ENSMUSG00000036067 UniProt Q9UGQ3 Q3UDF0 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001145099 NM_017585 NM_001177627 NM_172659 RefSeq (protein) NP_001138571 NP_060055 NP_001171098 NP_766247 Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 133.47 – 133.48 Mb Chr 2: 26.91 – 26.92 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Function

Hexose transport into mammalian cells is catalyzed by a family of membrane proteins, including SLC2A6, that contain 12 transmembrane domains and a number of critical conserved residues.[supplied by OMIM]^[6]

See also

• Glucose transporter
• Solute carrier family