The lipid translocase, ABCA4: Seeing is believing

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3204-3214

  Pollock, Naomi Laura ^a   Callaghan, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; all trans retinal; phospholipid translocase; Stargardt disease

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; RETINAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIPID TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MUTATION; RETINA; RETINOIDS;

EID: 80052509365     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08169.x     Document Type: Review

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