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SLC6A6

Sodium- and chloride-dependent taurine transporter is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC6A6 gene.[1][2][3]

References

  1. Ramamoorthy S, Leibach FH, Mahesh VB, Han H, Yang-Feng T, Blakely RD, Ganapathy V (Jul 1994). “Functional characterization and chromosomal localization of a cloned taurine transporter from human placenta”. Biochem J. 300 (3): 893–900. PMC 1138249. PMID 8010975.
  2. Jhiang SM, Fithian L, Smanik P, McGill J, Tong Q, Mazzaferri EL (Mar 1993). “Cloning of the human taurine transporter and characterization of taurine uptake in thyroid cells”. FEBS Lett. 318 (2): 139–44. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(93)80008-I. PMID 8382624.
  3. “Entrez Gene: SLC6A6 solute carrier family 6 (neurotransmitter transporter, taurine), member 6”.

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