Mouse Glucose transporter 1,GLUT1 ELI

Facilitative glucose transporter, which is responsible for constitutive or basal glucose uptake (PubMed:17320047).

Has a very broad substrate specificity; can transport a wide range of aldoses including both pentoses and hexoses (By similarity).

Most important energy carrier of the brain: present at the blood-brain barrier and assures the energy-independent, facilitative transport of glucose into the brain (By similarity).

In association with BSG and NXNL1, promotes retinal cone survival by increasing glucose uptake into photoreceptors (By similarity).

{ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:P11166, ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:P46896, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17320047, ECO:0000269|PubMed:25957687}.