Cloning of a human nucleoside transporter implicated in the cellular uptake of adenosine and chemotherapeutic drugs

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-93

  Griffiths, Mark ^a   Beaumont, Nick ^a   Yao, Sylvia Y M ^b   Sundaram, Manickavasagam ^a   Boumah, Christine E ^b   Davies, Anthony ^a,c   Kwong, Francis Y P ^a,d   Coe, Imogen ^b   Cass, Carol E ^b   Young, James D ^b   Baldwin, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Murex Biotech Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLADRIBINE; CYTARABINE; CYTIDINE; DILAZEP; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FLUDARABINE; GEMCITABINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GUANOSINE; INOSINE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; THYMIDINE; URACIL; URIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLADRIBINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTARABINE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER 1; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDES; OOCYTES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URIDINE; VIDARABINE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0007844316     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0197-89     Document Type: Article

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