High affinity cationic amino acid transporter 1

High affinity cationic amino acid transporter 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A1 gene.[5][6]

SLC7A1
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC7A1, ATRC1, CAT-1, ERR, HCAT1, REC1L, solute carrier family 7 member 1
External IDs	OMIM: 104615 MGI: 88117 HomoloGene: 20658 GeneCards: SLC7A1
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 13 (human)[1] Band 13q12.3 Start 29,509,414 bp[1] End 29,595,688 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 5 (mouse)[2] Band 5 G3|5 88.48 cM Start 148,327,410 bp[2] End 148,399,904 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function • GO:0001948 protein binding • amino acid transmembrane transporter activity • arginine transmembrane transporter activity • L-ornithine transmembrane transporter activity • L-lysine transmembrane transporter activity • GO:0022891 transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component • integral component of membrane • integral component of plasma membrane • membrane • cell membrane • macromolecular complex Biological process • arginine transport • amino acid transmembrane transport • 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
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: 148.33 – 148.4 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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See also

• Solute carrier family

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000139514 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000041313 - Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. Albritton LM, Bowcock AM, Eddy RL, Morton CC, Tseng L, Farrer LA, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Shows TB, Cunningham JM (March 1992). "The human cationic amino acid transporter (ATRC1): physical and genetic mapping to 13q12-q14". Genomics. 12 (3): 430–4. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90431-Q. PMID 1348489.
6. "Entrez Gene: SLC7A1 solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid transporter, y+ system), member 1".

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• 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.
• 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.