Type: | Family | Name: | Putative sodium bile acid cotransporter |
Description: | This family includes sodium/bile acid cotransporter 7 [] and other uncharacterised proteins with sodium bile acid cotransporter domain; they are found both in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.They are related to the human bile acid:sodium symporters, which are transmembrane proteins functioning in the liver in the uptake of bile acids from portal blood plasma, a process mediated by the co-transport of Na+[]. | Short Name: | Put_Na-Bile_cotransptr |