solute carrier family 18 member 3 (SLC18A3, vesicular acetylcholine transporter, VAChT)

Function

• role in acetylcholine transport into synaptic vesicles

Structure

• belongs to the major facilitator superfamily vesicular transporter family

Compartment

membrane

Expression

peripheral & central cholinergic nervous systems

More general terms

• solute carrier family 18 (SLC18, SLC18A)
• transmembrane 12 protein
• major facilitator superfamily (MFS)

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=6572
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:6572
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600336
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q16572.html