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Mouse (GRCm39)
Description

solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid transporter, y+ system), member 8 [Source:MGI Symbol;Acc:MGI:1355323]

Gene Synonyms

LAT2

Location

Chromosome 14: 54,959,630-55,019,649 reverse strand.

GRCm39:CM001007.3

About this gene

This gene has 7 transcripts (splice variants), 247 orthologues, 15 paralogues and is associated with 16 phenotypes.

Transcript IDNamebpProteinTranslation IDBiotypeCCDSUniProt MatchFlags
ENSMUST00000022787.9Slc7a8-2014149531aaENSMUSP00000022787.7
 
Protein coding
CCDS27101Q9QXW9 Ensembl CanonicalGENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS P1TSL:1
ENSMUST00000382375.1Slc7a8-2065011170aaENSMUSP00000160738.1
 
Protein coding
-GENCODE PrimaryGENCODE Basic
ENSMUST00000382373.1Slc7a8-2043792412aaENSMUSP00000160736.1
 
Protein coding
-GENCODE Basic
ENSMUST00000382376.1Slc7a8-2071840170aaENSMUSP00000160739.1
 
Protein coding
-GENCODE Basic
ENSMUST00000382372.1Slc7a8-2034498357aaENSMUSP00000160735.1
 
Nonsense mediated decay
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ENSMUST00000382374.1Slc7a8-2054056113aaENSMUSP00000160737.1
 
Nonsense mediated decay
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ENSMUST00000226646.2Slc7a8-2022155No protein-
 
Retained intron
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