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Functional characterization of vesicular excitatory amino acid transport by human sialin.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Oct 2011
Miyaji Takaaki, Omote Hiroshi, Moriyama Yoshinori
Abstract excerpt
Sialin, the protein coded by SLC17A5, is responsible for membrane potential (Δψ)-driven aspartate and glutamate transport into synaptic vesicles in addition to H+/sialic acid co-transport in lysosomes. Rodent sialin mutants harboring the mutations associated with Salla disease in humans did not transport aspartate and glutamate whereas H+/sialic acid co-transport activity was about one-third of the wild-type...
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