cationic amino acid transporter-4 (CAT4, solute carrier family 7 member 4, SLC7A4)

Function

• role 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 (probable)

More general terms

• transmembrane 13 protein
• amino acid transport protein
• glycoprotein
• solute carrier family 7 (SLC7, SLC7A)

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:6545
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/603752
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O43246.html