Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

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solute carrier family 18 (vesicular acetylcholine), member 3
Identifiers
Symbol SLC18A3
Entrez 6572
HUGO 10936
OMIM 600336
RefSeq NM_003055
UniProt Q16572
Other data
Locus Chr. 10 q11.2

The Vesicular acetylcholine transporter is a neurotransmitter transporter which is responsible for loading acetylcholine into secretory organelles in neurons making acetylcholine available for secretion.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Erickson JD, Varoqui H (2000). "Molecular analysis of vesicular amine transporter function and targeting to secretory organelles". FASEB J. 14 (15): 2450–8. doi:10.1096/fj.00-0206rev. PMID 11099462. 
  2. ^ Weihe E, Tao-Cheng JH, Schäfer MK, Erickson JD, Eiden LE (1996). "Visualization of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in cholinergic nerve terminals and its targeting to a specific population of small synaptic vesicles". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (8): 3547–52. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.8.3547. PMID 8622973. 

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