Description
Product Characteristics: FUNCTION: Mediates the uptake of glutamate into synaptic vesicles at presynaptic nerve terminals of excitatory neural cells. May also mediate the transport of inorganic phosphate. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, synaptic vesicle membrane. Membrane, Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell junction, synapse, synaptosome.,SLC17 Family,Vesicular glutamate transporter 1, VGlU1, Solute carrier family 17 member 7, Brain-specific Na(+)-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter, Bnpi
Target Information: Mediates the uptake of glutamate into synaptic vesicles at presynaptic nerve terminals of excitatory neural cells. May also mediate the transport of inorganic phosphate. {ECO:0000269:PubMed:15103023, ECO:0000269:PubMed:15118123, ECO:0000269:PubMed:17611277}