SLC12A5

K-Cl cotransporters are proteins that lower intracellular chloride concentrations below the electrochemical equilibrium potential. The protein encoded by this gene is an integral membrane K-Cl cotransporter that can function in either a net efflux or influx pathway, depending on the chemical concentration gradients of potassium and chloride. The encoded protein can act as a homomultimer, or as a heteromultimer with other K-Cl cotransporters, to maintain chloride homeostasis in neurons. Alternative splicing results in two transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2008]

Description

Solute carrier family 12 member 5

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (brain, retina)

Predicted location

Intracellular, Membrane

Protein family

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

Chromosome

20 (46021690 - 46060150)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000124140  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Slc12a5: ENSMUSG00000017740

UniProt

Q9H2X9

neXtProt

NX_Q9H2X9

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure