neutral amino acid transporter A; alanine/serine/cysteine/threonine transporter; ASCT1; SATT; solute carrier family 1 member 4 (SLC1A4, ASCT1, SATT)

Function

• transporter for alanine, serine, cysteine, & threonine
• Na+ dependence

Structure

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

Compartment

• membrane, melanosome

Expression

• expressed mostly in brain, muscle, & pancreas but detected in all tissues examined

More general terms

• amino acid transport protein
• solute carrier family 1 (SLC1 SLC1A)
• glycoprotein
• phosphoprotein

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:6509
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600229
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P43007.html
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=6509