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Transport proteins NHA1 and NHA2 are essential for survival, but have distinct transport modalities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Sept 2015
Chintapalli Venkateswara R, Kato Akira, Henderson Louise, Hirata Taku, Woods Debra J, Overend Gayle, Davies Shireen A, Romero Michael F, Dow Julian A T
Abstract excerpt
The cation/proton antiporter (CPA) family includes the well-known sodium/proton exchanger (NHE; SLC9A) family of Na(+)/H(+) exchangers, and the more recently discovered and less well understood CPA2s (SLC9B), found widely in living organisms. In Drosophila, as in humans, they are represented by two genes, Nha1 (Slc9b1) and Nha2 (Slc9b2), which are enriched and functionally significant in renal tubules. The...
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