Description
Product Characteristics:
GLUT12 belongs to a family of transporters that catalyze the uptake of sugars through facilitated diffusion. Thirteen different types of glucose/fructose transport carrier proteins designated as Glut 1-13 facilitate glucose/fructose transport across the cell membrane. Individual members of the Glut family have predicted secondary structure characteristic of 12 membrane spanning domains of other transport carriers.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Cell membrane
Synonyms: GLUT8, GLUT12, Solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 12, Glucose transporter type 12, GLUT-12, SLC2A12
Target Information: SLC2A12 belongs to a family of transporters that catalyze the uptake of sugars through facilitated diffusion (Rogers et al., 2002). This family of transporters show conservation of 12 transmembrane helices as well as functionally significant amino acid residues (Joost and Thorens, 2001 [PubMed 11780753]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]