The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆

The field of transport biology has steadily grown over the past decade and is now recognized as playing an important role in manifestation and treatment of disease. The SLC (solute carrier) gene series has grown to now include 52 families and 395 transporter genes in the human genome. A list of thes...

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Main Authors: Hediger, Matthias A., Clémençon, Benjamin, Burrier, Robert E., Bruford, Elspeth A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853582/
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spelling pubmed-38535822013-12-06 The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆ Hediger, Matthias A. Clémençon, Benjamin Burrier, Robert E. Bruford, Elspeth A. Review The field of transport biology has steadily grown over the past decade and is now recognized as playing an important role in manifestation and treatment of disease. The SLC (solute carrier) gene series has grown to now include 52 families and 395 transporter genes in the human genome. A list of these genes can be found at the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) website (see www.genenames.org/genefamilies/SLC). This special issue features mini-reviews for each of these SLC families written by the experts in each field. The existing online resource for solute carriers, the Bioparadigms SLC Tables (www.bioparadigms.org), has been updated and significantly extended with additional information and cross-links to other relevant databases, and the nomenclature used in this database has been validated and approved by the HGNC. In addition, the Bioparadigms SLC Tables functionality has been improved to allow easier access by the scientific community. This introduction includes: an overview of all known SLC and “non-SLC” transporter genes; a list of transporters of water soluble vitamins; a summary of recent progress in the structure determination of transporters (including GLUT1/SLC2A1); roles of transporters in human diseases and roles in drug approval and pharmaceutical perspectives. Elsevier Science 2013-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3853582/ /pubmed/23506860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mam.2012.12.009 Text en © 2013 The Authors. This document may be redistributed and reused, subject to certain conditions (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/supplementalterms1.0) .
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author Hediger, Matthias A.
Clémençon, Benjamin
Burrier, Robert E.
Bruford, Elspeth A.
spellingShingle Hediger, Matthias A.
Clémençon, Benjamin
Burrier, Robert E.
Bruford, Elspeth A.
The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
author_facet Hediger, Matthias A.
Clémençon, Benjamin
Burrier, Robert E.
Bruford, Elspeth A.
author_sort Hediger, Matthias A.
title The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
title_short The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
title_full The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
title_fullStr The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
title_full_unstemmed The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): Introduction☆☆☆
title_sort abcs of membrane transporters in health and disease (slc series): introduction☆☆☆
description The field of transport biology has steadily grown over the past decade and is now recognized as playing an important role in manifestation and treatment of disease. The SLC (solute carrier) gene series has grown to now include 52 families and 395 transporter genes in the human genome. A list of these genes can be found at the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) website (see www.genenames.org/genefamilies/SLC). This special issue features mini-reviews for each of these SLC families written by the experts in each field. The existing online resource for solute carriers, the Bioparadigms SLC Tables (www.bioparadigms.org), has been updated and significantly extended with additional information and cross-links to other relevant databases, and the nomenclature used in this database has been validated and approved by the HGNC. In addition, the Bioparadigms SLC Tables functionality has been improved to allow easier access by the scientific community. This introduction includes: an overview of all known SLC and “non-SLC” transporter genes; a list of transporters of water soluble vitamins; a summary of recent progress in the structure determination of transporters (including GLUT1/SLC2A1); roles of transporters in human diseases and roles in drug approval and pharmaceutical perspectives.
publisher Elsevier Science
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853582/
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