SLC7A4

Solute carrier family 7, member 4
Identifiers
Symbols	SLC7A4 ; CAT-4; CAT4; HCAT3; VH
External IDs	OMIM: 603752 MGI: 2146512 HomoloGene: 20883 ChEMBL: 5075 GeneCards: SLC7A4 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • L-ornithine transmembrane transporter activity • basic amino acid transmembrane transporter activity • arginine transmembrane transporter activity • L-lysine transmembrane transporter activity • antiporter activity Cellular component • integral component of plasma membrane • integral component of membrane Biological process • cellular amino acid metabolic process • transport • L-arginine import across plasma membrane • L-ornithine transmembrane transport • L-lysine transmembrane transport Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	6545	224022
Ensembl	ENSG00000099960	ENSMUSG00000022756
UniProt	O43246	Q8BLQ7
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_004173	NM_144852
RefSeq (protein)	NP_004164	NP_659101
Location (UCSC)	Chr 22: 21.03 – 21.03 Mb	Chr 16: 17.57 – 17.58 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Cationic amino acid transporter 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A4 gene.

See also

• SLC7A4 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.