Gene
Entrez ID Entrez Gene ID - the GENE ID in NCBI Gene database.
9194
Gene name Gene Name - the full gene name approved by the HGNC.
Solute carrier family 16 member 7
Gene symbol Gene Symbol - the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC.
SLC16A7
Synonyms (NCBI Gene) Gene synonyms aliases
MCT2
Chromosome Chromosome number
12
Chromosome location Chromosomal Location - indicates the cytogenetic location of the gene or region on the chromosome.
12q14.1
Summary Summary of gene provided in NCBI Entrez Gene.
This gene is a member of the monocarboxylate transporter family. Members in this family transport metabolites, such as lactate, pyruvate, and ketone bodies. The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the proton-linked transport of monocarboxylates and has
miRNA miRNA information provided by mirtarbase database.
miRTarBase ID miRNA Experiments Reference
MIRT024296 hsa-miR-215-5p Microarray 19074876
MIRT026289 hsa-miR-192-5p Microarray 19074876
MIRT467931 hsa-miR-4464 PAR-CLIP 23592263
MIRT467930 hsa-miR-4748 PAR-CLIP 23592263
MIRT467929 hsa-miR-329-5p PAR-CLIP 23592263
Gene ontology (GO) Gene ontology information of associated ontologies with gene provided by GO database.
GO ID Ontology Definition Evidence Reference
GO:0005477 Function Pyruvate secondary active transmembrane transporter activity TAS 9786900
GO:0005515 Function Protein binding IPI 32296183
GO:0005654 Component Nucleoplasm IDA
GO:0005886 Component Plasma membrane IDA
GO:0005886 Component Plasma membrane TAS
Other IDs Other ids provides unique ids of gene in databases such as OMIM, HGNC, ENSEMBLE.
MIM HGNC e!Ensembl
603654 10928 ENSG00000118596
Protein
UniProt ID O60669
Protein name Monocarboxylate transporter 2 (MCT 2) (Solute carrier family 16 member 7)
Protein function Proton-coupled monocarboxylate symporter. Catalyzes the rapid transport across the plasma membrane of monocarboxylates such as L-lactate, pyruvate and ketone bodies, acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetate (PubMed:32415067, PubMed:9786900
PDB 7BP3
Family and domains

Pfam

Accession ID Position in sequence Description Type
PF07690 MFS_1 21 390 Major Facilitator Superfamily Family
Tissue specificity TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Detected in heart and in blood lymphocytes and monocytes (at protein level) (PubMed:15505343). High expression in testis, moderate to low in spleen, heart, kidney, pancreas, skeletal muscle, brain and leukocyte (PubMed:9786900). Restri
Sequence
Sequence length 478
Interactions View interactions
Pathways Pathway information has different metabolic/signaling pathways associated with genes.
  Reactome
    Proton-coupled monocarboxylate transport
Associated diseases Disease information provided by ClinVar, GenCC, and GWAS databases.
Causal
Disease term Disease name dbSNP ID References
Alzheimer disease Alzheimer`s Disease rs63750215, rs28936379, rs63749851, rs63749884, rs28936380, rs63750048, rs63750579, rs63750264, rs63749964, rs63750671, rs281865161, rs63750066, rs63750399, rs63750734, rs63751039
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20885792
Obesity Obesity rs74315349, rs1474810899, rs121918111, rs796065034, rs753856820, rs796065035, rs121918112, rs104894023, rs137852821, rs1580764441, rs137852822, rs137852823, rs137852824, rs13447324, rs121913562
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20882379
Unknown
Disease term Disease name Evidence References Source
Asthma Asthma 26031901 ClinVar
Takayasu Arteritis Takayasu Arteritis GWAS
Insomnia Insomnia GWAS
Associations from Text Mining
Disease Name Relationship Type References
Adenocarcinoma Associate 28644754
Adrenocortical Carcinoma Associate 26587828
Autism Spectrum Disorder Associate 23032108
Brain Neoplasms Associate 22700320
Breast Neoplasms Associate 21177384, 22700320, 25415228
Burkitt Lymphoma Associate 9786900
Carcinoma Hepatocellular Associate 25206282
Carcinoma Non Small Cell Lung Associate 25578492
Carcinoma Ovarian Epithelial Associate 37934721
Colorectal Neoplasms Associate 18188595, 28874966, 29945573, 30521130