Basic Information

Symbol
SLC16A6
RNA class
mRNA
Alias
Solute Carrier Family 16 Member 6 MCT6 MCT7 Solute Carrier Family 16, Member 6 (Monocarboxylic Acid Transporter 7) Monocarboxylate Transporter 7 Monocarboxylate Transporter 6 Solute Carrier Family 16 (Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters), Member 6 Solute Carrier Family 16, Member 6 Breast Cancer Protein BCY5 MCT 7 MCT 6
Location (GRCh38)
17:68267026-68291267
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Drug abuse diagnoses
External database
HGNC NCBI Ensembl OMIM UniProt GTEx

MANE select

Transcript ID
NM_004694.5
Sequence length
3691.0 nt
GC content
0.3945

Transcripts

ID Sequence Length GC content
NM_001174166.2 NCBI
AUUGGGAGCCUUUGGGGGUUUAUUCUCUUCCCUUCUAACUUGACAGGGU… 3818 nt 0.3994
NM_004694.5 NCBI
AUUGGGAGCCUUUGGGGGUUUAUUCUCUUCCCUUCUAACUUGAUUAAGA… 3691 nt 0.3945
Summary

Predicted to enable monocarboxylic acid transmembrane transporter activity. Predicted to be involved in monocarboxylic acid transport. Predicted to be located in basolateral plasma membrane. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Forensic Context

A study in humans identified the SLC16A6 as a top differentially expressed gene in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex associated with alcohol use disorder through meta-analysis of postmortem brain RNA-seq data [Willis et al. DOI:10.1038/S41380-024-02777-1].