vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter (GABA & glycine transporter, vesicular GABA transporter, hVIAAT, solute carrier family 32 member 1, SLC32A1, VGAT, VIAAT)

Function

• uptake of GABA & glycine into synaptic vesicles

Compartment

cytoplasmic vesicle

Expression

• expressed in retina throughout horizontal cells, especially at terminals

More general terms

• transmembrane 10 protein
• glycoprotein
• solute carrier family 32 (SLC32, SLC32A)

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9H598.html