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SUBMITTER: Rosemary Jane Cater
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10698 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cater Rosemary J RJ Chua Geok Lin GL Erramilli Satchal K SK Keener James E JE Choy Brendon C BC Tokarz Piotr P Chin Cheen Fei CF Quek Debra Q Y DQY Kloss Brian B Pepe Joseph G JG Parisi Giacomo G Wong Bernice H BH Clarke Oliver B OB Marty Michael T MT Kossiakoff Anthony A AA Khelashvili George G Silver David L DL Mancia Filippo F
Nature 20210616 7866
Docosahexaenoic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential for neurological development and function, and it is supplied to the brain and eyes predominantly from dietary sources<sup>1-6</sup>. This nutrient is transported across the blood-brain and blood-retina barriers in the form of lysophosphatidylcholine by major facilitator superfamily domain containing 2A (MFSD2A) in a Na<sup>+</sup>-dependent manner<sup>7,8</sup>. Here we present the structure of MFSD2A determined using single-partic ...[more]