Scientific background: |
Monocarboxylate transporter 5, also called Solute carrier family 16 member 4 or MCT4, is a protein that in humans is encodes by the SLC16A4 gene. This gene is mapped to 1p13.3. It acts as the proton-linked monocarboxylate transporter. This gene catalyzes the rapid transport across the plasma membrane of many monocarboxylates such as lactate, pyruvate, branched-chain oxo acids derived from leucine, valine and isoleucine, and the ketone bodies acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetate. |
References: |
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2. Yoon, H., Donoso, L. A., Philp, N. J. Cloning of the human monocarboxylate transporter MCT3 gene: localization to chromosome 22q12.3-q13.2. Genomics 60: 366-370, 1999.
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