Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables basic amino acid transmembrane transporter activity. Acts upstream of or within basic amino acid transmembrane transport and regulation of arginine metabolic process. Predicted to be located in basolateral plasma membrane. Is expressed in heart; intestine; metanephros; and testis. Used to study lysinuric protein intolerance. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in lysinuric protein intolerance. Orthologous to human SLC7A7 (solute carrier family 7 member 7).