Electrogenic Sodium Bicarbonate Cotransporter 4 (NBC4)

SLC4A5 is a member of the sodium bicarbonate cotransporter (NBC) family, part of the bicarbonate transporter superfamily. Sodium bicarbonate cotransporters are involved in intracellular pH regulation and electroneural or electrogenic sodium bicarbonate transport. This protein is thought to be an integral membrane protein. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of some variants has not been determined.Highest expression observed in liver, spleen and testis; moderate expression in the choroid plexus, hippocampus, cerebrum and cerebellum of brain, and in kidney cortex and kidney medulla. Also observed in heart, pancreas, muscle, lung, placenta, stomach and small intestine.