Cationic amino acid transporter 2 explained

Cationic amino acid transporter 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, etal . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes. . Genome Res. . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . 2006 . 16344560 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 . 1356129 .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .
• González M, Flores C, Pearson JD, etal . Cell signalling-mediating insulin increase of mRNA expression for cationic amino acid transporters-1 and -2 and membrane hyperpolarization in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. . Pflügers Arch. . 448 . 4 . 383–94 . 2005 . 15064952 . 10.1007/s00424-004-1261-x . 25238852 .
• Schnorr O, Suschek CV, Kolb-Bachofen V . The importance of cationic amino acid transporter expression in human skin. . J. Invest. Dermatol. . 120 . 6 . 1016–22 . 2003 . 12787129 . 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12139.x . free .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Hammermann R, Brunn G, Racké K . Analysis of the genomic organization of the human cationic amino acid transporters CAT-1, CAT-2 and CAT-4. . Amino Acids . 21 . 2 . 211–9 . 2002 . 11665818 . 10.1007/s007260170029 . 30892800 .
• Closs EI, Gräf P, Habermeier A, etal . Human cationic amino acid transporters hCAT-1, hCAT-2A, and hCAT-2B: three related carriers with distinct transport properties. . Biochemistry . 36 . 21 . 6462–8 . 1997 . 9174363 . 10.1021/bi962829p .

Notes and References

1. Hoshide R, Ikeda Y, Karashima S, Matsuura T, Komaki S, Kishino T, Niikawa N, Endo F, Matsuda I . Molecular cloning, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization of human cationic amino acid transporter 2 (HCAT2) . Genomics . 38 . 2 . 174–8 . Mar 1997 . 8954799 . 10.1006/geno.1996.0613 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: SLC7A2 solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid transporter, y+ system), member 2.