Excitatory amino-acid transporter 5

SLC1A7
Identifiers
Aliases SLC1A7, AAAT, EAAT5, solute carrier family 1 member 7
External IDs OMIM: 604471 MGI: 2444087 HomoloGene: 21327 GeneCards: SLC1A7
Targeted by Drug
DL-TBOA[1]
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

6512

242607

Ensembl

ENSG00000162383

ENSMUSG00000008932

UniProt

O00341

Q8JZR4

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001287595
NM_001287596
NM_001287597
NM_006671

NM_146255

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001274525.1
NP_001274526.1
NP_006662.3

NP_666367.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 53.09 – 53.14 Mb Chr 4: 107.97 – 108.01 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Excitatory amino-acid transporter 5 (EAAT5) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC1A7 gene.[4][5]

EAAT5 is expressed predominantly in the retina, has high affinity for the excitatory amino acid L-glutamate. When stimulated by this amino acid, EAAT5 conducts chloride ions.[5]

References

Further reading

  • Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241Freely accessible. PMID 12477932. 
  • Wistow G, Bernstein SL, Ray S, et al. (2002). "Expressed sequence tag analysis of adult human iris for the NEIBank Project: steroid-response factors and similarities with retinal pigment epithelium.". Mol. Vis. 8: 185–95. PMID 12107412. 
  • Boehmer C, Rajamanickam J, Schniepp R, et al. (2005). "Regulation of the excitatory amino acid transporter EAAT5 by the serum and glucocorticoid dependent kinases SGK1 and SGK3.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 329 (2): 738–42. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.02.035. PMID 15737648. 
  • Gratacòs M, Costas J, de Cid R, et al. (2009). "Identification of new putative susceptibility genes for several psychiatric disorders by association analysis of regulatory and non-synonymous SNPs of 306 genes involved in neurotransmission and neurodevelopment.". Am. J. Med. Genet. B Neuropsychiatr. Genet. 150B (6): 808–16. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30902. PMID 19086053. 
  • Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs.". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039. 


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