Mitochondrial transporters for ornithine and related amino acids: A review

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1763-1777

  Monné, Magnus ^a,b   Miniero, Daniela Valeria ^a   Daddabbo, Lucia ^a   Palmieri, Luigi ^a   Porcelli, Vito ^a   Palmieri, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arginine; Histidine; Homoarginine; Lysine; Membrane transport; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial carrier; Mitochondrial transporter; Ornithine; Urea cycle

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; AMINE; BASIC AMINO ACID CARRIER 1; BASIC AMINO ACID CARRIER 2; CARRIER PROTEIN; CITRULLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMINE; LIPOSOME; NITRIC OXIDE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE CARRIER 1; ORNITHINE CARRIER 2; POLYAMINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN ORT1P; PROTEIN SLC25A29; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ORNITHINE TRANSPORTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CYTOSOL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERORNITHINEMIA HYPERAMMONEMIA HOMOCITRULLINURIA SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ARABIDOPSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HOMO SAPIENS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84940462396     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1990-5     Document Type: Article

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