CATs, a family of three distinct mammalian cationic amino acid transporters

Amino Acids

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-208

  Closs, E I ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrier; Cationic amino acid; Ecotropic Virus; Nitric oxide; System y+; Transporter

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; CATION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VIRUS RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0029794514     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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