Cationic amino acid transporter 2

SLC7A2
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC7A2, ATRC2, CAT2, HCAT2, solute carrier family 7 member 2
External IDs	OMIM: 601872; MGI: 99828; HomoloGene: 20659; GeneCards: SLC7A2; OMA:SLC7A2 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 8 (human) Band 8p22 Start 17,497,088 bp End 17,570,573 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 8 (mouse) Band 8 A4|8 23.89 cM Start 41,315,433 bp End 41,375,345 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in Skeletal muscle tissue of rectus abdominis biceps brachii Skeletal muscle tissue of biceps brachii islet of Langerhans right lobe of liver trigeminal ganglion gastrocnemius muscle bronchial epithelial cell retinal pigment epithelium right ovary Top expressed in epithelium of lens Dermatocranium membranous bone left lobe of liver mandible maxilla muscle of thigh secondary oocyte islet of Langerhans ciliary body More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function high-affinity lysine transmembrane transporter activity low-affinity L-arginine transmembrane transporter activity L-arginine transmembrane transporter activity basic amino acid transmembrane transporter activity high-affinity L-arginine transmembrane transporter activity high-affinity L-ornithine transmembrane transporter activity L-ornithine transmembrane transporter activity L-lysine transmembrane transporter activity amino acid transmembrane transporter activity transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane membrane integral component of plasma membrane plasma membrane cell junction Biological process nitric oxide biosynthetic process cellular amino acid metabolic process nitric oxide production involved in inflammatory response regulation of inflammatory response L-lysine import across plasma membrane L-arginine import across plasma membrane L-ornithine import across plasma membrane macrophage activation L-ornithine transmembrane transport amino acid transport regulation of macrophage activation transmembrane transport L-lysine transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 6542 11988 Ensembl ENSG00000003989 ENSMUSG00000031596 UniProt P52569 P18581 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001008539 NM_001164771 NM_003046 NM_001370337 NM_001370338 NM_001044740 NM_007514 RefSeq (protein) NP_001008539 NP_001158243 NP_003037 NP_001357266 NP_001357267 NP_001038205 NP_031540 Location (UCSC) Chr 8: 17.5 – 17.57 Mb Chr 8: 41.32 – 41.38 Mb PubMed search
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Cationic amino acid transporter 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A2 gene.

See also

• SLC7A2+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Further reading

• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• González M, Flores C, Pearson JD, et al. (2005). "Cell signalling-mediating insulin increase of mRNA expression for cationic amino acid transporters-1 and -2 and membrane hyperpolarization in human umbilical vein endothelial cells". Pflügers Arch. 448 (4): 383–94. doi:10.1007/s00424-004-1261-x. PMID 15064952. S2CID 25238852.
• Schnorr O, Suschek CV, Kolb-Bachofen V (2003). "The importance of cationic amino acid transporter expression in human skin". J. Invest. Dermatol. 120 (6): 1016–22. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12139.x. PMID 12787129.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Hammermann R, Brunn G, Racké K (2002). "Analysis of the genomic organization of the human cationic amino acid transporters CAT-1, CAT-2 and CAT-4". Amino Acids. 21 (2): 211–9. doi:10.1007/s007260170029. PMID 11665818. S2CID 30892800.
• Closs EI, Gräf P, Habermeier A, et al. (1997). "Human cationic amino acid transporters hCAT-1, hCAT-2A, and hCAT-2B: three related carriers with distinct transport properties". Biochemistry. 36 (21): 6462–8. doi:10.1021/bi962829p. PMID 9174363.

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