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. 1990 Dec;10(12):6785–6790. doi: 10.1128/mcb.10.12.6785

Structural isoforms of a membrane transport protein from Leishmania enriettii.

S P Stack 1, D A Stein 1, S M Landfear 1
PMCID: PMC362959  PMID: 1701025

Abstract

A membrane transport protein of the glucose transporter superfamily from Leishmania enriettii is encoded by a family of tandemly repeated genes. The first gene in this tandem repeat codes for a structural isoform that contains a unique amino-terminal hydrophilic domain, probably located in the cytoplasm; the remainder of the protein is identical to the polypeptide encoded by the internal genes in the tandem repeat. The unique isoform is represented by a distinct stable RNA.

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