Identification of a Disulfide Bridge Important for Transport Function of SNAT4 Neutral Amino Acid Transporter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Padmanabhan Iyer, Rugmani ^a   Gu, Sumin ^a   Nicholson, Bruce J ^a   Jiang, Jean X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ARGININE; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE 232; CYSTEINE 249; CYSTEINE 321; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; SNAT4 PROTEIN; TRIS(2 CARBOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; FEMALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM A; ANIMALS; BIOTINYLATION; DISULFIDES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84874307156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056792     Document Type: Article

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