Glucose Transporter GLUT4 Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody (R1402-3)

UNIPROT #

P14672

PROTEIN NAME

Glucose Transporter GLUT4

SYNONYMS

Glucose transporter GLUT 4;Glucose transporter type 4;Glucose transporter type 4 insulin responsive;GLUT 4;GLUT-4;GLUT4;GTR4_HUMAN;Insulin responsive glucose transporter type 4;insulin-responsive;kug;SLC 2A4;SLC2A4;solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter) member 4;Solute carrier family 2 member 4;Solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 4

SEQUENCE SIMILARITIES

Belongs to the major facilitator superfamily. Sugar transporter (TC 2.A.1.1) family. Glucose transporter subfamily.

TISSUE SPECIFICITY

Skeletal and cardiac muscles; brown and white fat.

POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION

Sumoylated.; Palmitoylated. Palmitoylation by ZDHHC7 controls the insulin-dependent translocation of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane.

SUBCELLULAR LOCATION

Cell membrane

FUNCTION

Glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4), also known as solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 4, is a protein encoded, in humans, by the SLC2A4 gene. GLUT4 is the insulin-regulated glucose transporter found primarily in adipose tissues and striated muscle (skeletal and cardiac). The first evidence for this distinct glucose transport protein was provided by David James in 1988. The gene that encodes GLUT4 was cloned and mapped in 1989. At the cell surface, GLUT4 permits the facilitated diffusion of circulating glucose down its concentration gradient into muscle and fat cells. Once within cells, glucose is rapidly phosphorylated by glucokinase in the liver and hexokinase in other tissues to form glucose-6-phosphate, which then enters glycolysis or is polymerized into glycogen. Glucose-6-phosphate cannot diffuse back out of cells, which also serves to maintain the concentration gradient for glucose to passively enter cells.