Novel Dicarboxylate Selectivity in an Insect Glutamate Transporter Homolog

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a   Rascoe, Avi M ^b   Holley, David C ^b   Gouaux, Eric ^a   Kavanaugh, Michael P ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DCTA PROTEIN; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 3; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER GENE; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLC1 GENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CULEX; DICARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 3; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84881364525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070947     Document Type: Article

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