Functional characterization of a H+/nucleoside co-transporter (CaCNT) from Candida albicans, a fungal member of the concentrative nucleoside transporter (CNT) family of membrane proteins

Yeast

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 661-675

  Loewen, Shaun K ^a   Ng, Amy M L ^a   Mohabir, Nadira N ^a   Baldwin, Stephen A ^b   Cass, Carol E ^a   Young, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CaCNT; Candida albicans; Concentrative nucleoside transporter; Drug transport; Purine nucleoside; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORDYCEPIN; COTRANSPORTER; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; HYPOXANTHINE; INOSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CACNT; PURINE DERIVATIVE; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLYCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYADENOSINES; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEOSIDES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0038818921     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1000     Document Type: Review

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