Identification and Functional Characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans Riboflavin Transporters rft-1 and rft-2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Biswas, Arundhati ^a,b   Elmatari, Daniel ^c   Rothman, Jason ^c   LaMunyon, Craig W ^c   Said, Hamid M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOFLAVIN; RIBOFLAVIN TRANSPORTER 1; RIBOFLAVIN TRANSPORTER 2; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RFT 1 GENE; RFT 2 GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; LARVA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOFLAVIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84874621630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058190     Document Type: Article

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