SLC6A8

• Official Symbol: SLC6A8
• Official Name: solute carrier family 6 member 8
• Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
• Entrez ID: 6535
• UniProt: P48029
• Interactions: BioGRID
• PubMed articles: Open PubMed
• OMIM: Open OMIM

• Entrez Summary: The protein encoded by this gene is a plasma membrane protein whose function is to transport creatine into and out of cells. Defects in this gene can result in X-linked creatine deficiency syndrome. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2008].
• UniProt Summary: Required for the uptake of creatine in muscles and brain.

Pfam Domains GO Terms

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

• Essentiality Rank: 11582
• Expression level (log2 read counts): -0.59

Expression Distribution

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SLC6A8 Expression in NALM6 Cells: -0.59