Sequence Cluster id id2 desc organism isHeteromeric 1 Singleton1 SwissProt::Q8N695 SC5A8_HUMAN Sodium-coupled monocarboxylate transporter 1; Apical iodide transporter; Electrogenic sodium monocarboxylate cotransporter; Sodium iodide-related cotransporter; Solute carrier family 5 member 8 Homo sapiens (Human) 1 Singleton1 TCDB::Q8N695 2.A.21.5.3 Na+-dependent short chain fatty acid transporter SLC5A8 (tumor suppressor gene product, down-regulated in colon cancer) (substrates: lactate, pyruvate, acetate, propionate, butyrate (Km ≈1 mM)) [propionate:Na+ = 1:3] (Miyauchi et al., 2004). Pyroglutamate (5-oxoproline) is also transported in a Na+- coupled mechanism (Miyauchi et al., 2010). SMCT1 and SMCT2 may transport monocarboxylate drugs (e.g. nicotinate and its derivatives) across the intestinal brush boarder membrane