excitatory amino acid transporter 4; Na+ dependent glutamate/aspartate transporter; solute carrier family 1 member 6 (SLC1A6, EAAT4)

Function

• transports L-glutamate & also L- & D-aspartate
• seems to act as a symporter by cotransporting Na+

Structure

• belongs to the Na+:dicarboxylate (SDF) symporter (TC 2.A.23) family

Compartment

membrane

Expression

• expressed in brain
• expressed densely & selectively in cell bodies of Purkinje cells

More general terms

• transmembrane 10 protein
• glutamate/aspartate transporter
• solute carrier family 1 (SLC1 SLC1A)

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:6511
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600637
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P48664.html
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=6511