| Name | trafficking regulator of GLUT4 (SLC2A4) 1 |
| Description | Predicted to be involved in endosome to plasma membrane protein transport and glucose import in response to insulin stimulus. Predicted to act upstream of or within establishment of localization in cell and vesicle fusion to plasma membrane. Predicted to be located in cytoplasmic vesicle membrane and plasma membrane. Predicted to be active in membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Mar 2025] |
| Summary |
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| NCBI Gene ID | 286753 |
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TRARG1 has 700 functional associations with biological entities spanning 6 categories (functional term, phrase or reference, disease, phenotype or trait, chemical, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA, sequence feature) extracted from 21 datasets.
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If available, associations are ranked by standardized value
| Dataset | Summary | |
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| Allen Brain Atlas Aging Dementia and Traumatic Brain Injury Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles | tissue samples with high or low expression of TRARG1 gene relative to other tissue samples from the Allen Brain Atlas Aging Dementia and Traumatic Brain Injury Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| CellMarker Gene-Cell Type Associations | cell types associated with TRARG1 gene from the CellMarker Gene-Cell Type Associations dataset. | |
| CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas | gene perturbations changing expression of TRARG1 gene from the CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas dataset. | |
| COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 | cellular components containing TRARG1 protein from the COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 | cellular components co-occuring with TRARG1 protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| DISEASES Experimental Gene-Disease Association Evidence Scores 2025 | diseases associated with TRARG1 gene in GWAS datasets from the DISEASES Experimental Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Association Evidence Scores 2025 | diseases co-occuring with TRARG1 gene in abstracts of biomedical publications from the DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| GO Biological Process Annotations 2025 | biological processes involving TRARG1 gene from the curated GO Biological Process Annotations2025 dataset. | |
| GO Cellular Component Annotations 2025 | cellular components containing TRARG1 protein from the curated GO Cellular Component Annotations 2025 dataset. | |
| GTEx eQTL 2025 | SNPs regulating expression of TRARG1 gene from the GTEx eQTL 2025 dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles 2023 | tissues with high or low expression of TRARG1 gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles 2023 dataset. | |
| IMPC Knockout Mouse Phenotypes | phenotypes of mice caused by TRARG1 gene knockout from the IMPC Knockout Mouse Phenotypes dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets 2025 | transcription factors regulating expression of TRARG1 gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Mouse Transcription Factor Targets 2025 | transcription factors regulating expression of TRARG1 gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Mouse Transcription Factor Targets 2025 dataset. | |
| MoTrPAC Rat Endurance Exercise Training | tissue samples with high or low expression of TRARG1 gene relative to other tissue samples from the MoTrPAC Rat Endurance Exercise Training dataset. | |
| Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 | transcription factors regulating expression of TRARG1 gene from the Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures | drug perturbations changing expression of TRARG1 gene from the RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures | gene perturbations changing expression of TRARG1 gene from the RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues with high expression of TRARG1 protein from the TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues with high expression of TRARG1 protein in proteomics datasets from the TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues co-occuring with TRARG1 protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |