Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables choline transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in choline transport and transmembrane transport. Predicted to be located in cytosol; mitochondrial outer membrane; and nucleoplasm. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; brain; genitourinary system; hindlimb long bone; and thoracic segment skeleton. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in high grade glioma. Orthologous to human SLC44A1 (solute carrier family 44 member 1).