Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 5.2.1)
Enables glucose transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in regulation of transporter activity. Acts upstream of or within glucose transmembrane transport; intestinal absorption; and metanephros development. Located in apical plasma membrane and brush border. Is expressed in alimentary system; brain; and urinary system. Orthologous to human SLC5A1 (solute carrier family 5 member 1).