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2.A.21.5.8
Sodium-coupled transporter, SLC5A11 or cupcake of 600 aas.  A mutant lacking this protein is insensitive to the nutritional value of sugars. It is most similar to mammalian sodium/monocarboxylate co-transporters.  It was prominently expressed in 10-13 pairs of R4 neurons of the ellipsoid body in the brain and functioned in these neurons for selecting appropriate foods (Dus et al. 2013).

Accession Number:Q9VLR8
Protein Name:GH19970p
Length:600
Molecular Weight:65298.00
Species:Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly) [7227]
Number of TMSs:13
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Membrane1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate sodium(1+), monocarboxylic acid anion

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MEAVAKKGME NYRFGSVDYA VFLGMIVLST STGIYFGCIK KSKVKLEEAE PTLPTTTPKR 
61:	RKHDFGSEKM SEYLLGSRNL KVFPVAMSLI ASYISGVTIL GTTSEIYNYG TQYWFIAIAI 
121:	MLQGIAVSYV YIPVFSALQV GSSYEYLEMR FHSVVRSIAS FMFILDEILF LPFIVYVPAI 
181:	ALNQVSGINL HVIAVVIVVV CVFYTFVGGI KAVVHTDAWQ VLVMFLSVLA VAILATVYAN 
241:	GLNVLFDDAA KGGRLIFNNT NPSPYVRHTV WSVLIGGFSY WTSFNAVNQT MVQRYMSLPS 
301:	LKKARASMAI FTIGVAAFVS VCCYVGLLIY EMYKDCDPLS AGLITHDDQL LPLFVVQSVG 
361:	HIYGMSGLFI AGIFGAALSS LSVVLNSTSL VILEDIVRGC FKMQPSERAS TILVKSTVIV 
421:	LGFVALSLVF VLEQLSGILS ICTSMTAIAA GTTFGLFTLG MLVPWANTVG TAVGGIASAL 
481:	LAGWISFGTQ FTIAAGELNS QKLPVSVEGC VGNVTLRENI WVDEEQVFPL YRLSYHWINP 
541:	IGVATVIVVG ALVSLVTKPT NMKTLDPDLI SPVIHRFLPK ECFSGRNLHA QAHKNLLNVS