Cationic amino acid transporter 4

Cationic amino acid transporter 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A4 gene.^[5][6][7]

SLC7A4
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC7A4, CAT-4, CAT4, HCAT3, VH, solute carrier family 7 member 4
External IDs	OMIM: 603752; MGI: 2146512; HomoloGene: 20883; GeneCards: SLC7A4; OMA:SLC7A4 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 22 (human)[1] Band 22q11.21 Start 21,028,718 bp[1] End 21,032,840 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 16 (mouse)[2] Band 16|16 A3 Start 17,389,882 bp[2] End 17,401,078 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in right testis left testis prefrontal cortex right hemisphere of cerebellum right adrenal gland right adrenal cortex gonad right frontal lobe left adrenal cortex hypothalamus Top expressed in dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell seminal vesicula superior frontal gyrus primary visual cortex parotid gland right ventricle hippocampus proper lacrimal gland Region I of hippocampus proper prefrontal cortex More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function basic amino acid transmembrane transporter activity transmembrane transporter activity amino acid transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane membrane Biological process cellular amino acid metabolic process amino acid transport basic amino acid transmembrane transport transmembrane transport amino acid transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 6545 224022 Ensembl ENSG00000099960 ENSMUSG00000022756 UniProt O43246 Q8BLQ7 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004173 NM_144852 NM_001359891 NM_001359892 NM_001359893 RefSeq (protein) NP_004164 NP_659101 NP_001346820 NP_001346821 NP_001346822 Location (UCSC) Chr 22: 21.03 – 21.03 Mb Chr 16: 17.39 – 17.4 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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See also

• SLC7A4+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)