Vesicular Inhibitory Amino Acid Transporter (VIAAT)

Vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter is an integral membrane protein involved in gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine uptake into synaptic vesicles. The encoded protein is a member of amino acid/polyamine transporter family II.Expressed throughout the horizontal cells or more specifically at the terminals.

The solute carrier (SLC) group of membrane transport proteins include over 300 members organized into 47 families. The SLC gene nomenclature system was originally proposed by the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) and is the basis for the official HUGO names of the genes that encode these transporters. A more general transmembrane transporter classification can be found in TCDB database.