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2.A.3.3.8
Low affinity cationic amino acid transporter 2 (CAT-2) (CAT2) (Solute carrier family 7 member 2) (Closs 1996).

Accession Number:P52569
Protein Name:Low affinity cationic amino acid transporter 2
Length:658
Molecular Weight:71673.00
Species:Homo sapiens (Human) [9606]
Number of TMSs:14
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Membrane1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate alpha-amino acid

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Entrez Gene ID: 6542   
KEGG: hsa:6542   

Gene Ontology

GO:0005737 C:cytoplasm
GO:0005887 C:integral to plasma membrane
GO:0005624 C:membrane fraction
GO:0015174 F:basic amino acid transmembrane transporter activity
GO:0006520 P:cellular amino acid metabolic process
GO:0006811 P:ion transport

References (6)

[1] “Molecular cloning, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization of human cationic amino acid transporter 2 (HCAT2).”  Hoshide R.et.al.   8954799
[2] “Human cationic amino acid transporters hCAT-1, hCAT-2A, and hCAT-2B: three related carriers with distinct transport properties.”  Closs E.I.et.al.   9174363
[3] “DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 8.”  Nusbaum C.et.al.   16421571
[4] “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).”  The MGC Project Teamet.al.   15489334
[5] “The full-ORF clone resource of the German cDNA consortium.”  Bechtel S.et.al.   17974005
[6] “A quantitative atlas of mitotic phosphorylation.”  Dephoure N.et.al.   18669648

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MIPCRAALTF ARCLIRRKIV TLDSLEDTKL CRCLSTMDLI ALGVGSTLGA GVYVLAGEVA 
61:	KADSGPSIVV SFLIAALASV MAGLCYAEFG ARVPKTGSAY LYTYVTVGEL WAFITGWNLI 
121:	LSYVIGTSSV ARAWSGTFDE LLSKQIGQFL RTYFRMNYTG LAEYPDFFAV CLILLLAGLL 
181:	SFGVKESAWV NKVFTAVNIL VLLFVMVAGF VKGNVANWKI SEEFLKNISA SAREPPSENG 
241:	TSIYGAGGFM PYGFTGTLAG AATCFYAFVG FDCIATTGEE VRNPQKAIPI GIVTSLLVCF 
301:	MAYFGVSAAL TLMMPYYLLD EKSPLPVAFE YVGWGPAKYV VAAGSLCALS TSLLGSIFPM 
361:	PRVIYAMAED GLLFKCLAQI NSKTKTPIIA TLSSGAVAAL MAFLFDLKAL VDMMSIGTLM 
421:	AYSLVAACVL ILRYQPGLSY DQPKCSPEKD GLGSSPRVTS KSESQVTMLQ RQGFSMRTLF 
481:	CPSLLPTQQS ASLVSFLVGF LAFLVLGLSV LTTYGVHAIT RLEAWSLALL ALFLVLFVAI 
541:	VLTIWRQPQN QQKVAFMVPF LPFLPAFSIL VNIYLMVQLS ADTWVRFSIW MAIGFLIYFS 
601:	YGIRHSLEGH LRDENNEEDA YPDNVHAAAE EKSAIQANDH HPRNLSSPFI FHEKTSEF