Sodium- and chloride-dependent taurine transporter

Sodium- and chloride-dependent taurine transporter is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC6A6 gene.^[5][6][7]

SLC6A6
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC6A6, TAUT, solute carrier family 6 member 6, HTRDC
External IDs	OMIM: 186854; MGI: 98488; HomoloGene: 2291; GeneCards: SLC6A6; OMA:SLC6A6 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 3 (human)[1] Band 3p25.1 Start 14,402,576 bp[1] End 14,489,349 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 6 (mouse)[2] Band 6 D1|6 40.73 cM Start 91,684,053 bp[2] End 91,759,066 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in mucosa of paranasal sinus palpebral conjunctiva olfactory zone of nasal mucosa blood visceral pleura bronchial epithelial cell epithelium of nasopharynx monocyte skin of hip germinal epithelium Top expressed in ciliary body neural layer of retina iris skin of external ear calvaria retinal pigment epithelium ankle joint gastrula decidua stroma of bone marrow More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function neurotransmitter:sodium symporter activity symporter activity amino acid transmembrane transporter activity taurine:sodium symporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane integral component of plasma membrane membrane Biological process cellular amino acid metabolic process amino acid transmembrane transport neurotransmitter transport amino acid transport taurine transport transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 6533 21366 Ensembl ENSG00000131389 ENSMUSG00000030096 UniProt P31641 O35316 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001134367 NM_001134368 NM_003043 NM_009320 RefSeq (protein) NP_001127839 NP_001127840 NP_003034 NP_033346 Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 14.4 – 14.49 Mb Chr 6: 91.68 – 91.76 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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