low affinity cationic amino acid transporter 2; CAT-2; CAT2; solute carrier family 7 member 2 (SLC7A2, ATRC2)

Function

• low-affinity, high capacity permease involved in the transport of the cationic amino acids (arginine, lysine & ornithine)

Structure

• belongs to the amino acid-polyamine-organocation (APC) superfamily, cationic amino acid transporter (CAT) (TC 2.A.3.3) family

Compartment

membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

More general terms

• transmembrane 14 protein
• amino acid transport protein
• solute carrier family 7 (SLC7, SLC7A)
• phosphoprotein

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:6542
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/601872
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P52569.html