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The molecular basis of cystinuria: an update.
Experimental nephrology - 1 Jan 2000
Goodyer P, Boutros M, Rozen R
Abstract excerpt
Cystinuria is a hereditary disorder of cystine and dibasic amino acid transport across the luminal membrane of renal proximal tubule and small intestine. In 1992, a cDNA (rBAT) was isolated from kidney which induced high-affinity, sodium-independent uptake of cystine and dibasic amino acids when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. The rBAT gene was mapped to a region of chromosome 2p known to contain a cystinuria...
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