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SLC7A1
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC7A1, ATRC1, CAT-1, ERR, HCAT1, REC1L, solute carrier family 7 member 1
External IDs	OMIM: 104615; MGI: 88117; GeneCards: SLC7A1
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 13 (human) Band 13q12.3 Start 29,509,414 bp End 29,595,688 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 5 (mouse) Band 5 G3|5 88.48 cM Start 148,264,220 bp End 148,336,714 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in gums gingival epithelium endothelial cell buccal mucosa cell parotid gland mucosa of pharynx oral cavity corpus epididymis Epithelium of choroid plexus dorsal motor nucleus of vagus nerve Top expressed in cumulus cell lacrimal gland utricle Paneth cell hair follicle condyle conjunctival fornix endothelial cell of lymphatic vessel seminal vesicula facial motor nucleus More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function protein binding amino acid transmembrane transporter activity L-ornithine transmembrane transporter activity L-lysine transmembrane transporter activity transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane integral component of plasma membrane membrane plasma membrane protein-containing complex Biological process amino acid transmembrane transport L-arginine transmembrane transport amino acid transport transport transmembrane transport L-arginine import across plasma membrane L-ornithine transmembrane transport L-lysine transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Databases NCBI: entry; OMA: entry Species Human Mouse Entrez 6541 11987 Ensembl ENSG00000139514 ENSMUSG00000041313 UniProt P30825 Q09143 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_003045 NM_001301424 NM_007513 RefSeq (protein) NP_003036 NP_001288353 NP_031539 Location (UCSC) Chr 13: 29.51 – 29.6 Mb Chr 5: 148.26 – 148.34 Mb PubMed search
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High affinity cationic amino acid transporter 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A1 gene.

See also

• Solute carrier family

Further reading

• Yoshimoto T, Yoshimoto E, Meruelo D (November 1991). "Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel human gene homologous to the murine ecotropic retroviral receptor". Virology. 185 (1): 10–7. doi:10.1016/0042-6822(91)90748-Z. PMID 1718082.
• Kamath SG, Furesz TC, Way BA, Smith CH (September 1999). "Identification of three cationic amino acid transporters in placental trophoblast: cloning, expression, and characterization of hCAT-1". The Journal of Membrane Biology. 171 (1): 55–62. doi:10.1007/s002329900558. PMID 10485994. S2CID 25084494.
• 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.
• Cariappa R, Heath-Monnig E, Furesz TC, Kamath SG, Smith CH (March 2002). "Stable polarized expression of hCAT-1 in an epithelial cell line". The Journal of Membrane Biology. 186 (1): 23–30. doi:10.1007/s00232-001-0133-y. PMID 11891586. S2CID 25743745.
• Furesz TC, Heath-Monnig E, Kamath SG, Smith CH (September 2002). "Lysine uptake by cloned hCAT-2B: comparison with hCAT-1 and with trophoblast surface membranes". The Journal of Membrane Biology. 189 (1): 27–33. doi:10.1007/s00232-002-1001-0. PMID 12202949. S2CID 24776183.
• Kizhatil K, Albritton LM (December 2002). "System y+ localizes to different membrane subdomains in the basolateral plasma membrane of epithelial cells". American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology. 283 (6): C1784-94. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00061.2002. PMID 12388095. S2CID 17848190.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, Derge JG, Klausner RD, Collins FS, Wagner L, Shenmen CM, Schuler GD, Altschul SF, Zeeberg B, Buetow KH, Schaefer CF, Bhat NK, Hopkins RF, Jordan H, Moore T, Max SI, Wang J, Hsieh F, Diatchenko L, Marusina K, Farmer AA, Rubin GM, Hong L, Stapleton M, Soares MB, Bonaldo MF, Casavant TL, Scheetz TE, Brownstein MJ, Usdin TB, Toshiyuki S, Carninci P, Prange C, Raha SS, Loquellano NA, Peters GJ, Abramson RD, Mullahy SJ, Bosak SA, McEwan PJ, McKernan KJ, Malek JA, Gunaratne PH, Richards S, Worley KC, Hale S, Garcia AM, Gay LJ, Hulyk SW, Villalon DK, Muzny DM, Sodergren EJ, Lu X, Gibbs RA, Fahey J, Helton E, Ketteman M, Madan A, Rodrigues S, Sanchez A, Whiting M, Madan A, Young AC, Shevchenko Y, Bouffard GG, Blakesley RW, Touchman JW, Green ED, Dickson MC, Rodriguez AC, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Myers RM, Butterfield YS, Krzywinski MI, Skalska U, Smailus DE, Schnerch A, Schein JE, Jones SJ, Marra MA (December 2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Schnorr O, Suschek CV, Kolb-Bachofen V (June 2003). "The importance of cationic amino acid transporter expression in human skin". The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 120 (6): 1016–22. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12139.x. PMID 12787129.
• González M, Flores C, Pearson JD, Casanello P, Sobrevia L (July 2004). "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 Archiv. 448 (4): 383–94. doi:10.1007/s00424-004-1261-x. PMID 15064952. S2CID 25238852.
• Schwartz IF, Iaina A, Benedict Y, Wollman Y, Chernichovski T, Brasowski E, Misonzhnik F, Ben-Dor A, Blum M, Levo Y, Schwartz D (April 2004). "Augmented arginine uptake, through modulation of cationic amino acid transporter-1, increases GFR in diabetic rats". Kidney International. 65 (4): 1311–9. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00508.x. PMID 15086470.
• Rotmann A, Strand D, Martiné U, Closs EI (December 2004). "Protein kinase C activation promotes the internalization of the human cationic amino acid transporter hCAT-1. A new regulatory mechanism for hCAT-1 activity". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279 (52): 54185–92. doi:10.1074/jbc.M409556200. PMID 15491978.
• Cui Z, Tuladhar R, Hart SL, Marber MS, Pearson JD, Baydoun AR (February 2005). "Rate of transport of l-arginine is independent of the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in HEK 293 cells". Nitric Oxide. 12 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1016/j.niox.2004.11.001. hdl:2299/1712. PMID 15631944.
• Yang Z, Venardos K, Jones E, Morris BJ, Chin-Dusting J, Kaye DM (March 2007). "Identification of a novel polymorphism in the 3'UTR of the L-arginine transporter gene SLC7A1: contribution to hypertension and endothelial dysfunction". Circulation. 115 (10): 1269–74. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.665836. PMID 17325243.
• Kaneko S, Okuda-Ashitaka E, Ando A, Nishimura K, Igarashi K, Maeda M, Furuta K, Suzuki M, Matsumura M, Ito S (August 2007). "Polyamines upregulate the mRNA expression of cationic amino acid transporter-1 in human retinal pigment epithelial cells". American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology. 293 (2): C729-37. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00018.2007. PMID 17494634. S2CID 9039432.