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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bringaud F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC358999 | biostudies-other | 1993 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Molecular and cellular biology 19930201 2
A tandemly arranged multigene family encoding putative hexose transporters in Trypanosoma brucei has been characterized. It is composed of two 80% homologous groups of genes called THT1 (six copies) and THT2 (five copies). When Xenopus oocytes are microinjected with in vitro-transcribed RNA from a THT1 gene, they express a glucose transporter with properties similar to those of the trypanosome bloodstream-form protein(s). This THT1-encoded transport system for glucose differs from the human eryt ...[more]