Sodium/hydrogen exchanger 6 is an integral membrane protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC9A6 gene. It was originally thought to be a mitochondrial-targeted protein, but subsequent studies have localized it to the plasma membrane and recycling endosomes.[5][6][7][8]
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Loss of function causes Christianson syndrome.[9]
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