oat-1 encodes a transmembrane organic anion transporter; although loss of oat-1 activity via large-scale RNAi screens results in no obvious abnormalities, when expressed in mammalian cells OAT-1 can transport a variety of structurally diverse organic anions via an anion exchange mechanism that is functionally coupled to a sodium-coupled dicarboxylate transporter; by homology with mammalian OAT1 transporters, C. elegans OAT-1 is predicted to function in xenobiotic elimination.
Predicted to enable transmembrane transporter activity. Predicted to be involved in transmembrane transport. Predicted to be located in membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Lynch syndrome and mismatch repair cancer syndrome. Is an ortholog of several human genes including SLC22A17 (solute carrier family 22 member 17); SLC22A6 (solute carrier family 22 member 6); and SLC22A8 (solute carrier family 22 member 8).
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.