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Homo sapiens Gene: SLC2A6
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-91438.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol SLC2A6
Gene Name solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 6
Synonyms GLUT6; GLUT9; HSA011372
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000160326
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-91442
solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 6
IDBP-91446
solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 6
IDBP-383456
solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 6
IDBP-383461
solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 6
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary Hexose transport into mammalian cells is catalyzed by a family of membrane proteins, including SLC2A6, that contain 12 transmembrane domains and a number of critical conserved residues.[supplied by OMIM, Jul 2002]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 9:133471095-133479137
Strand Reverse strand
Band q34.2
Transcripts
ENST00000371899 ENSP00000360966
ENST00000371897 ENSP00000360964
ENST00000432868 ENSP00000405124
ENST00000414172 ENSP00000398004
ENST00000485978
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 2 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 2 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 1 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005355 glucose transmembrane transporter activity
GO:0022857 transmembrane transporter activity
GO:0022891 substrate-specific transmembrane transporter activity
Biological Process
GO:0015758 glucose transport
GO:0055085 transmembrane transport
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000036067
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000001824
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_19343
Facilitative Na+-independent glucose transporters pathway
REACT_19305
Transport of glucose and other sugars, bile salts and organic acids, metal ions and amine compounds pathway
REACT_15518
Transmembrane transport of small molecules pathway
REACT_19118
SLC-mediated transmembrane transport pathway
KEGG
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.244378
RefSeq NM_001145099 NM_017585
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS48052 CCDS6975
HPRD 06010
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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