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Designing a Western blot for SLC1A5? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the SLC1A5 Western Blot GuideFacts about Neutral amino acid transporter B(0).
Through binding of the fusogenic protein syncytin-1/ERVW-1 may mediate trophoblasts syncytialization, the spontaneous mix of their plasma membranes, an essential process in placental development (PubMed:10708449, PubMed:23492904). .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SLC1A5 |
| Uniprot: | Q15758 |
| Entrez: | 6510 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| dicarboxylate/amino acid:cation symporter (DAACS) (TC 2.A.23) family |

AAAT; ASCT2M7VS1; ATB(0); Baboon M7 virus receptor; M7V1ATBO; neutral amino acid transporter B; neutral amino acid transporter B(0); R16; RD114 virus receptor; RD114/simian type D retrovirus receptor; RDR; RDRCFLJ31068; Sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter type 2; solute carrier family 1 (neutral amino acid transporter), member 5; Solute carrier family 1 member 5
Mass (kDA):
56.598 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.32 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (46774883..46788594, complement) |
Placenta, lung, skeletal muscle, kidney, pancreas, and intestine.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Melanosome. Identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage I to stage IV.





PMID: 8702519 by Kekuda R., et al. Cloning of the sodium-dependent, broad-scope, neutral amino acid transporter Bo from a human placental choriocarcinoma cell line.
PMID: 10051606 by Rasko J.E.J., et al. The RD114/simian type D retrovirus receptor is a neutral amino acid transporter.