An Insulin-Like Modular Basis for the Evolution of Glucose Transporters (GLUT) with Implications for Diabetes
Glucose transporters (GLUT) are twelve-transmembrane spanning proteins that contain two pores capable of transporting glucose and dehydroascorbate in and out of cells. The mechanism by which transport is effected is unknown. An evolutionarily-based hypothesis for the mechanism of glucose transport i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2007-01-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Bioinformatics |
Online Access: | http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=408 |