Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
Solute carrier family 38 member 5 is aprotein that in humans is encoded by the SLC38A5gene.[5]
The protein encoded by this gene is a system N sodium-coupledamino acid transporter. The encoded protein transportsglutamine,asparagine,histidine,serine,alanine, andglycine across thecell membrane, but does not transport charged amino acids,imino acids, orN-alkylated amino acids. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.
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