Sodium-coupled neutral amino acid (System N/A) transporters of the SLC38 gene family

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 447, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 784-795

  Mackenzie, Bryan ^a   Erickson, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive regulation; Amino acid transport; Ammonia detoxification; Gluconeogenesis; Glutamate glutamine cycle; Glutamine transport; SNAT6

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; COTRANSPORTER; GLUTAMINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SOCIUM COUPLED NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 4; SODIUM COUPLED NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; SODIUM COUPLED NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; SODIUM COUPLED NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 3; SODIUM COUPLED NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ASTROCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG DESIGN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SLC38 GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM A; AMINO ACIDS, NEUTRAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SODIUM;

EID: 1242317638     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-003-1117-9     Document Type: Review

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