Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables urate transmembrane transporter activity. Predicted to be involved in monoatomic anion transport and sodium-dependent phosphate transport. Predicted to act upstream of or within sodium ion transport. Located in apical plasma membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; genitourinary system; and spinal cord mantle layer. Orthologous to human SLC17A4 (solute carrier family 17 member 4).