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SUBMITTER: Sari FM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4251126 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sari Fatih M FM Yanar Hakan T HT Ozhan Gul G
Biomedical reports 20141111 1
Breast cancer resistance protein (<i>BCRP</i>) protects tissues by actively transporting xenobiotics and their metabolites out of the cells. <i>BCRP</i> is expressed in the apical membrane of normal intestinal and colonic epithelium. The <i>BCRP</i> substrates include a number of structurally unrelated compounds, such as drugs, pesticides, carcinogens and endogenous compounds. Although the functional and common <i>BCRP</i> alleles, 34G>A and 421C>A, are shown to vary by ethnicity, their potentia ...[more]