SLC22A5

Polyspecific organic cation transporters in the liver, kidney, intestine, and other organs are critical for elimination of many endogenous small organic cations as well as a wide array of drugs and environmental toxins. The encoded protein is a plasma integral membrane protein which functions both as an organic cation transporter and as a sodium-dependent high affinity carnitine transporter. The encoded protein is involved in the active cellular uptake of carnitine. Mutations in this gene are the cause of systemic primary carnitine deficiency (CDSP), an autosomal recessive disorder manifested early in life by hypoketotic hypoglycemia and acute metabolic decompensation, and later in life by skeletal myopathy or cardiomyopathy. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2015]

Description

Solute carrier family 22 member 5

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (skeletal muscle)

Subcell location

Mitochondria

Predicted location

Membrane

Protein family

Disease related genes
Human disease related genes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Potential drug targets
Predicted membrane proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)
Transporters

Chromosome

5 (132369710 - 132395613)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000197375  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

-

UniProt

O76082

neXtProt

NX_O76082

Human splice variants

Protein structure