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Designing an IHC experiment for SLC6A6? 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 SLC6A6 IHC GuideFacts about Sodium- and chloride-dependent taurine transporter.
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| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SLC6A6 |
| Uniprot: | P31641 |
| Entrez: | 6533 |

| Belongs to: |
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| sodium:neurotransmitter symporter (SNF) (TC 2.A.22) family |

MGC10619; MGC131729; SLC6A6; sodium- and chloride-dependent taurine transporter; solute carrier family 6 (neurotransmitter transporter, taurine), member 6; TauT; TAUTSolute carrier family 6 member 6
Mass (kDA):
69.83 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 3p25.1 |
| Sequence: | 3; NC_000003.12 (14402576..14489349) |
Expressed abundantly in placenta and skeletal muscle, at intermediate levels in heart, brain, lung, kidney and pancreas and at low levels in liver.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 8382624 by Jhiang S.M., et al. Cloning of the human taurine transporter and characterization of taurine uptake in thyroid cells.
PMID: 8010975 by Ramamoorthy S., et al. Functional characterization and chromosomal localization of a cloned taurine transporter from human placenta.