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Facts about Vesicular glutamate transporter 2.
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Human | |
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Gene Name: | SLC17A6 |
Uniprot: | Q9P2U8 |
Entrez: | 57084 |
Belongs to: |
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major facilitator superfamily |
differentiation-associated BNPI; differentiation-associated Na(+)-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter; differentiation-associated Na-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter; DNPI; solute carrier family 17 (sodium-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter), member 6; solute carrier family 17 member 6; vesicular glutamate transporter 2; VGLUT2
Mass (kDA):
64.392 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 11p14.3 |
Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (22338381..22379503) |
Predominantly expressed in adult brain. Expressed in amygdala, caudate nucleus, cerebral cortex, frontal lobe, hippocampus, medulla, occipital lobe, putamen, spinal cord, substantia nigra, subthalamic nucleus, temporal lobe and thalamus.
Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, synaptic vesicle membrane. Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell junction, synapse, synaptosome.
PMID: 10820226 by Aihara Y., et al. Molecular cloning of a novel brain-type Na(+)-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter.
PMID: 11698620 by Takamori S., et al. Identification of differentiation-associated brain-specific phosphate transporter as a second vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT2).