ABC A-subfamily transporters: Structure, function and disease

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1762, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 510-524

  Kaminski, Wolfgang E ^a   Piehler, Armin ^b   Wenzel, Jürgen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Atherosclerosis; Ichthyosis; Lipid; Retina; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A1; ABC TRANSPORTER A10; ABC TRANSPORTER A11; ABC TRANSPORTER A12; ABC TRANSPORTER A2; ABC TRANSPORTER A3; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; ABC TRANSPORTER A5; ABC TRANSPORTER A6; ABC TRANSPORTER A7; ABC TRANSPORTER A8; ABC TRANSPORTER A9; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANGIOOSTEOHYPERTROPHY SYNDROME; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BETA SITOSTEROLEMIA; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENCE OF VAS DEFERENS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DUBIN JOHNSON SYNDROME; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; FAMILIAL HYPOAPOLIPOPROTEINEMIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA OF INFANCY; INFANT DISEASE; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LAMELLAR ICHTHYOSIS; LIPID TRANSPORT; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE INFANTILE INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS TYPE 2; PROGRESSIVE INFANTILE INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS TYPE 3; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; RETINA CONE ROD DYSTROPHY; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARGARDT DISEASE; TANGIER DISEASE; X LINKED SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; TANGIER DISEASE;

EID: 33646078329     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2006.01.011     Document Type: Review

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