The SLC22A5 gene, containing 10 exons,[3] is located on the q arm of chromosome 5 in position 31.1 and spans 25,910 base pair.[1] The gene produces a 63 kDa protein composed of 557 amino acids.[4][5] The protein has 12 putative transmembrane domains, with a long extracellular loop of 107 amino acids between the first two transmembrane domains and an intracellular loop between the fourth and fifth transmembrane domains. This long extracellular loop has three potential sites for N-glycosylation, and the intracellular loop has an ATP/GTP binding motif. In putative intracellular domains, there are five potential sites for protein-kinase C-dependent phosphorylation and one for protein-kinase A-dependent phosphorylation.[6]
Function
The SLC22A5 gene codes for a plasma integral membrane protein which functions as both an organic cation transporter and a sodium-dependent high affinity carnitine transporter.[1] The encoded protein is involved in the active cellular uptake of carnitine, transporting one sodium ion with one molecule of carnitine. Organic cations transported by this protein include tetraethylammonium (TEA) without involvement of sodium. The relative uptake activity ratio of carnitine to TEA is 11.3.[7]
↑Yoon YA, Lee DH, Ki CS, Lee SY, Kim JW, Lee YW, Park HD (2012). "SLC22A5 mutations in a patient with systemic primary carnitine deficiency: the first Korean case confirmed by biochemical and molecular investigation". Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science. 42 (4): 424–8. PMID23090741.
↑Koizumi A, Nozaki J, Ohura T, Kayo T, Wada Y, Nezu J, Ohashi R, Tamai I, Shoji Y, Takada G, Kibira S, Matsuishi T, Tsuji A (November 1999). "Genetic epidemiology of the carnitine transporter OCTN2 gene in a Japanese population and phenotypic characterization in Japanese pedigrees with primary systemic carnitine deficiency". Human Molecular Genetics. 8 (12): 2247–54. PMID10545605.
Further reading
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Hwu WL, Chien YH, Tang NL, Law LK, Lin CY, Lee NC (October 2007). "Deficiency of the carnitine transporter (OCTN2) with partial N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS) deficiency". Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 30 (5): 816. doi:10.1007/s10545-007-0594-y. PMID17703373.
Makhseed N, Vallance HD, Potter M, Waters PJ, Wong LT, Lillquist Y, Pasquali M, Amat di San Filippo C, Longo N (2004). "Carnitine transporter defect due to a novel mutation in the SLC22A5 gene presenting with peripheral neuropathy". Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 27 (6): 778–80. PMID15617188.
Kinali M, Olpin SE, Clayton PT, Daubeney PE, Mercuri E, Manzur AY, Tein I, Leonard J, Muntoni F (2004). "Diagnostic difficulties in a case of primary systemic carnitine deficiency with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy". European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 8 (4): 217–9. doi:10.1016/j.ejpn.2004.03.007. PMID15261886.
Kinali M, Olpin SE, Clayton PT, Daubeney PE, Mercuri E, Manzur AY, Tein I, Leonard J, Muntoni F (2004). "Diagnostic difficulties in a case of primary systemic carnitine deficiency with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy". European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 8 (4): 217–9. doi:10.1016/j.ejpn.2004.03.007. PMID15261886.
Matsuishi T, Hirata K, Terasawa K, Kato H, Yoshino M, Ohtaki E, Hirose F, Nonaka I, Sugiyama N, Ohta K (February 1985). "Successful carnitine treatment in two siblings having lipid storage myopathy with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy". Neuropediatrics. 16 (1): 6–12. doi:10.1055/s-2008-1052536. PMID3974805.
Wu X, Prasad PD, Leibach FH, Ganapathy V (May 1998). "cDNA sequence, transport function, and genomic organization of human OCTN2, a new member of the organic cation transporter family". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 246 (3): 589–95. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1998.8669. PMID9618255.
Tamai I, Ohashi R, Nezu J, Yabuuchi H, Oku A, Shimane M, Sai Y, Tsuji A (August 1998). "Molecular and functional identification of sodium ion-dependent, high affinity human carnitine transporter OCTN2". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273 (32): 20378–82. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.32.20378. PMID9685390.
Nezu J, Tamai I, Oku A, Ohashi R, Yabuuchi H, Hashimoto N, Nikaido H, Sai Y, Koizumi A, Shoji Y, Takada G, Matsuishi T, Yoshino M, Kato H, Ohura T, Tsujimoto G, Hayakawa J, Shimane M, Tsuji A (January 1999). "Primary systemic carnitine deficiency is caused by mutations in a gene encoding sodium ion-dependent carnitine transporter". Nature Genetics. 21 (1): 91–4. doi:10.1038/5030. PMID9916797.
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Burwinkel B, Kreuder J, Schweitzer S, Vorgerd M, Gempel K, Gerbitz KD, Kilimann MW (August 1999). "Carnitine transporter OCTN2 mutations in systemic primary carnitine deficiency: a novel Arg169Gln mutation and a recurrent Arg282ter mutation associated with an unconventional splicing abnormality". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 261 (2): 484–7. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.1060. PMID10425211.
Wu X, Huang W, Prasad PD, Seth P, Rajan DP, Leibach FH, Chen J, Conway SJ, Ganapathy V (September 1999). "Functional characteristics and tissue distribution pattern of organic cation transporter 2 (OCTN2), an organic cation/carnitine transporter". The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 290 (3): 1482–92. PMID10454528.
Vaz FM, Scholte HR, Ruiter J, Hussaarts-Odijk LM, Pereira RR, Schweitzer S, de Klerk JB, Waterham HR, Wanders RJ (1999). "Identification of two novel mutations in OCTN2 of three patients with systemic carnitine deficiency". Human Genetics. 105 (1–2): 157–61. doi:10.1007/s004390051079. PMID10480371.
Koizumi A, Nozaki J, Ohura T, Kayo T, Wada Y, Nezu J, Ohashi R, Tamai I, Shoji Y, Takada G, Kibira S, Matsuishi T, Tsuji A (November 1999). "Genetic epidemiology of the carnitine transporter OCTN2 gene in a Japanese population and phenotypic characterization in Japanese pedigrees with primary systemic carnitine deficiency". Human Molecular Genetics. 8 (12): 2247–54. doi:10.1093/hmg/8.12.2247. PMID10545605.
Seth P, Wu X, Huang W, Leibach FH, Ganapathy V (November 1999). "Mutations in novel organic cation transporter (OCTN2), an organic cation/carnitine transporter, with differential effects on the organic cation transport function and the carnitine transport function". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274 (47): 33388–92. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.47.33388. PMID10559218.
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