Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables sodium:iodide symporter activity. Acts upstream of or within transmembrane transport. Located in cytoplasm and plasma membrane. Is expressed in axial skeleton tail region; stomach; testis; and thyroid gland. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in congenital hypothyroidism and thyroid dyshormonogenesis 1. Orthologous to human SLC5A5 (solute carrier family 5 member 5).