Predicted to enable alanine transmembrane transporter activity. Predicted to be involved in amino acid transport; response to toxic substance; and sodium ion transmembrane transport. Located in brush border membrane. Biomarker of inflammatory bowel disease. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in obesity. Orthologous to human SLC6A14 (solute carrier family 6 member 14). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]