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Isolation and characterization of the plasma membrane biotin transporter from Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Yeast (Chichester, England) - 1 Feb 2003
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The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is auxotrophic for biotin (vitamin H) and growth depends on biotin uptake over the plasma membrane. Here a biotin transport mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used to identify the vht1(+) gene encoding the Schizosaccharomyces pombe plasma membrane transport protein for biotin. SpVht1p belongs to the family of allantoate transporters and has only little sequence...
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