Monocarboxylate transporter 2

Solute carrier family 16 member 7
Identifiers
Symbols SLC16A7 ; MCT2
External IDs OMIM: 603654 HomoloGene: 20990 IUPHAR: 990 GeneCards: SLC16A7 Gene
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 9194 20503
Ensembl ENSG00000118596 ENSMUSG00000020102
UniProt O60669 O70451
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001270622 NM_011391
RefSeq (protein) NP_001257551 NP_035521
Location (UCSC) Chr 12:
59.6 – 59.79 Mb
Chr 10:
125.23 – 125.33 Mb
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Monocarboxylate transporter 2 (MCT2) also known as solute carrier family 16 member 7 (SLC16A7) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC16A7 gene.[1] MCT2 is a proton-coupled monocarboxylate transporter. It catalyzes the rapid transport across the plasma membrane of many monocarboxylates such as lactate, pyruvate, branched-chain oxo acids derived from leucine, valine and isoleucine, and the ketone bodies acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetate. It also functions as high-affinity pyruvate transporter.

Both Northern blot analysis and inspection of the human expressed sequence tag (EST) database suggest relatively little expression of MCT2 in human tissues. As well, the sequence of MCT2 is far less conserved across species than that of MCT1 or MCT4 and there also appear to be considerable species differences in the tissue expression profile of this isoform.

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References

  1. Garcia CK, Goldstein JL, Pathak RK, Anderson RG, Brown MS (Apr 1994). "Molecular characterization of a membrane transporter for lactate, pyruvate, and other monocarboxylates: implications for the Cori cycle". Cell 76 (5): 865–73. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(94)90361-1. PMID 8124722.

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