SLC38A5

The protein encoded by this gene is a system N sodium-coupled amino acid transporter. The encoded protein transports glutamine, asparagine, histidine, serine, alanine, and glycine across the cell membrane, but does not transport charged amino acids, imino acids, or N-alkylated amino acids. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013]

Description

Solute carrier family 38 member 5

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (pancreas)

Subcell location

Vesicles, Plasma membrane, Cytosol

Predicted location

Membrane

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Predicted membrane proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)
Transporters

Chromosome

X (48458537 - 48470260)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000017483  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Slc38a5: ENSMUSG00000031170

UniProt

Q8WUX1

neXtProt

NX_Q8WUX1

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure