SLC46A1

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Solute carrier family 46 (folate transporter), member 1
Identifiers
SymbolsSLC46A1; HCP1; PCFT
External IDsOMIM: 611672 MGI: 1098733 HomoloGene: 41693 ChEMBL: 1795188 GeneCards: SLC46A1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez11323552466
EnsemblENSG00000076351ENSMUSG00000020829
UniProtQ96NT5Q6PEM8
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001242366NM_026740
RefSeq (protein)NP_001229295NP_081016
Location (UCSC)Chr 17:
26.72 – 26.73 Mb
Chr 11:
78.47 – 78.47 Mb
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Solute carrier family 46 (folate transporter), member 1 (SLC46A1) also known as proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the SLC46A1 gene.[1][2][3]

Function

SLC46A1 is responsible for the intestinal uptake of folate.[4]

References

  1. "Entrez Gene: PCFT proton-coupled folate transporter". 
  2. Shayeghi M, Latunde-Dada GO, Oakhill JS, Laftah AH, Takeuchi K, Halliday N, Khan Y, Warley A, McCann FE, Hider RC, Frazer DM, Anderson GJ, Vulpe CD, Simpson RJ, McKie AT (September 2005). "Identification of an intestinal heme transporter". Cell 122 (5): 789–801. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.06.025. PMID 16143108. 
  3. Sharma S, Dimasi D, Bröer S, Kumar R, Della NG (April 2007). "Heme carrier protein 1 (HCP1) expression and functional analysis in the retina and retinal pigment epithelium". Exp. Cell Res. 313 (6): 1251–9. doi:10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.01.019. PMID 17335806. 
  4. Nakai Y, Inoue K, Abe N, Hatakeyama M, Ohta KY, Otagiri M, Hayashi Y, Yuasa H (August 2007). "Functional characterization of human proton-coupled folate transporter/heme carrier protein 1 heterologously expressed in mammalian cells as a folate transporter". J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 322 (2): 469–76. doi:10.1124/jpet.107.122606. PMID 17475902. 

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