Cationic amino acid transporter 4 explained

Cationic amino acid transporter 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC7A4 gene.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Further reading

• Muñoz L, Lasa A, Carricondo MT, etal . Comparative analysis of ZAP-70 expression and Ig VH mutational status in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. . Cytometry Part B . 72 . 2 . 96–102 . 2007 . 17051526 . 10.1002/cyto.b.20149 . free .
• 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 .
• Collins JE, Wright CL, Edwards CA, etal . A genome annotation-driven approach to cloning the human ORFeome. . Genome Biol. . 5 . 10 . R84 . 2005 . 15461802 . 10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r84 . 545604 . 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 .
• Wolf S, Janzen A, Vékony N, etal . Expression of solute carrier 7A4 (SLC7A4) in the plasma membrane is not sufficient to mediate amino acid transport activity. . Biochem. J. . 364 . Pt 3 . 767–75 . 2002 . 12049641 . 10.1042/BJ20020084 . 1222626 .
• Neshat MN, Goodglick L, Lim K, Braun J . Mapping the B cell superantigen binding site for HIV-1 gp120 on a V(H)3 Ig. . Int. Immunol. . 12 . 3 . 305–12 . 2000 . 10700465 . 10.1093/intimm/12.3.305 . free .
• Fischer M, Küppers R . Human IgA- and IgM-secreting intestinal plasma cells carry heavily mutated VH region genes. . Eur. J. Immunol. . 28 . 9 . 2971–7 . 1998 . 9754584 . 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2971::AID-IMMU2971>3.0.CO;2-3 . free .

Notes and References

1. Sperandeo MP, Borsani G, Incerti B, Zollo M, Rossi E, Zuffardi O, Castaldo P, Taglialatela M, Andria G, Sebastio G . The gene encoding a cationic amino acid transporter (SLC7A4) maps to the region deleted in the velocardiofacial syndrome . Genomics . 49 . 2 . 230–6 . Aug 1998 . 9598310 . 10.1006/geno.1998.5252 . 11566/82078 .
2. Hammermann R, Brunn G, Racke 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 . Oct 2001 . 11665818 . 10.1007/s007260170029 . 30892800 .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: SLC7A4 solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid transporter, y+ system), member 4.