Solute carrier family

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Solute carrier family is a classification system created by HUGO to group together carrier proteins.

The term "SoLute Carrier" (SLC) is sometimes used to distinguish a superfamily of proteins from ATP Binding Cassette (ABC).

[edit] Families

  • (1) high affinity glutamate and neutral amino acid transporter
  • (2) facilitative GLUT transporter
  • (3) heavy subunits ofheteromeric amino acid transporters
  • (4) bicarbonate transporter
  • (5) sodium glucose cotransporter
  • (6) sodium- and chloride- dependent neurotransmitter transporter
  • (7) cationic amino acid transporter/glycoprotein-associated
  • (8) Na+/Ca2+ exchanger
  • (9) Na+/H+ exchanger
  • (10) sodium bile salt cotransport
  • (11) proton coupled metal ion transporter
  • (12) electroneutral cation-Cl cotransporter
  • (13) human Na+-sulfate/carboxylate cotransporter
  • (14) urea transporter
  • (15) proton oligopeptide cotransporter
  • (16) monocarboxylate transporter
  • (17) vesicular glutamate transporter
  • (18) vesicular amine transporter
  • (19) folate/thiamine transporter
  • (20) type III Na+-phosphate cotransporter
  • (21) organic anion transporting
  • (22) organic cation/anion/zwitterion transporter
  • (23) Na+-dependent ascorbic acid transporter
  • (24) Na+/(Ca2+-K+) exchanger
  • (25) mitochondrial carrier
  • (26) multifunctional anion exchanger
  • (27) fatty acid transport protein
  • (28) Na+-coupled nucleoside transport
  • (29) facilitative nucleoside transporter
  • (30) zinc efflux
  • (31) copper transporter
  • (32) vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter
  • (33) Acety-CoA transporter
  • (34) type II Na+-phosphate cotransporter
  • (35) nucleoside-sugar transporter
  • (36) proton-coupled amino acid transporter
  • (37) sugar-phosphate/phosphate exchanger
  • (38) System A & N, sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter
  • (39) metal ion transporter
  • (40) basolateral iron transporter
  • (41) MgtE-like magnesium transporter
  • (42) Rh ammonium transporter
  • (43) Na+-independent, system-L like amino acid transporter
  • (44) Choline-like transporter
  • (45) Putative sugar transporter
  • (46) Heme transporter


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