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SUBMITTER: Byers MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5487954 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Byers Mary Shannon MS Howard Christianna C Wang Xiaofei X
Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland) 20170405 2
The GLUT members belong to a family of glucose transporter proteins that facilitate glucose transport across the cell membrane. The mammalian GLUT family consists of thirteen members (GLUTs 1-12 and H⁺-myo-inositol transporter (HMIT)). Humans have a recently duplicated GLUT member, GLUT14. Avians express the majority of GLUT members. The arrangement of multiple GLUTs across all somatic tissues signifies the important role of glucose across all organisms. Defects in glucose transport have been li ...[more]