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Facts about Monocarboxylate transporter 2.
Functions as high-affinity pyruvate transporter. .
Human | |
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Gene Name: | SLC16A7 |
Uniprot: | O60669 |
Entrez: | 9194 |
Belongs to: |
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major facilitator superfamily |
MCT 2; MCT2solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid transporters), member 7; monocarboxylate transporter 2; Solute carrier family 16 member 7; solute carrier family 16, member 7 (monocarboxylic acid transporter 2)
Mass (kDA):
52.2 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 12q14.1 |
Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (59595934..59789841) |
Detected in heart and in blood lymphocytes and monocytes (at protein level). High expression in testis, moderate to low in spleen, heart, kidney, pancreas, skeletal muscle, brain and Leukocyte. Restricted expression in normal tissues, but widely expressed in cancer cells.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
PMID: 9786900 by Lin R.-Y., et al. Human monocarboxylate transporter 2 (MCT2) is a high affinity pyruvate transporter.
PMID: 15505343 by Merezhinskaya N., et al. Presence and localization of three lactic acid transporters (MCT1, -2, and -4) in separated human granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes.