Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables lactate transmembrane transporter activity; monocarboxylate:sodium symporter activity; and propionate transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in nicotinate transport. Acts upstream of or within propanoate transmembrane transport. Located in apical plasma membrane. Part of GINS complex. Is expressed in olfactory epithelium and rectum. Orthologous to human SLC5A8 (solute carrier family 5 member 8).