Amino acid transceptors: Gate keepers of nutrient exchange and regulators of nutrient signaling

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 296, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hundal, Harinder S ^a   Taylor, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GCN2; Mammalian target of rapamycin; Receptors; SNAT2; Transporters

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ANTI NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENERAL AMINO ACID PERMEASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; PERMEASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SSY1 PROTEIN; SYSTEM A AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRESS; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA MODIFICATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; UPREGULATION; YEAST; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; FOOD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 65649152957     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.91002.2008     Document Type: Review

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