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Designing an IHC experiment for Slc38a2? The guide has the expected staining pattern, antigen retrieval and fixation, antibodies backed by real IHC images, the tissue controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the SLC38A2 IHC GuideFacts about Sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 2.
May function in the transport of amino acids at the blood- brain barrier and in the source of maternal nutrients to the fetus through the placenta. .
| Rat | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Slc38a2 |
| Uniprot: | Q9JHE5 |
| Entrez: | 29642 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| amino acid/polyamine transporter 2 family |

Amino acid transporter A2; ata2; ATA2System A transporter 1; KIAA1382System N amino acid transporter 2; pro1068; Protein 40-9-1; sat2; SAT2PRO1068; snat2; SNAT2amino acid transporter 2; sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 2; Solute carrier family 38 member 2; solute carrier family 38, member 2; System A amino acid transporter 2
Mass (kDA):
55.554 kDA

| Rat | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 7q35 |
| Sequence: | 7; |
Widely expressed. Expressed in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue (at protein level). Expressed by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons together with astrocytes and other non- neuronal cells in the cerebral cortex (at protein level).



PMID: 10747860 by Sugawara M., et al. Cloning of an amino acid transporter with functional characteristics and tissue expression pattern identical to that of system A.
PMID: 10811809 by Yao D., et al. A novel system A isoform mediating Na+/neutral amino acid cotransport.