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. 2020 Sep 18;288(9):2784–2835. doi: 10.1111/febs.15531

Table 2.

Different transport systems of amino acids.

Transport system [182, 560, 561] Meaning Transporters from SLC families
System A Proteins cotransport Na+ with small, polar amino acids amino acids SLC38
System N Proteins cotransport Na+ with His, Gln, or Asn and the simultaneous antiport of protons SLC38
System L Proteins that have Na+ independent transport of large hydrophobic neutral amino acids SLC3/7, SLC43
System ASC Proteins cotransport Na+ with Ala, Ser, or Cys SLC1
System asc Proteins transport small neutral amino acids SLC3/7
System xC Proteins exchange Cys for Glu SLC3/7
System xAG Proteins cotransport Na+ with Asp or Glu and antiport K+ SLC1
System y+L Proteins cotransport Na+ with cationic and neutral amino acids SLC3/7
System y+ Proteins transport cationic amino acids SLC7
System b0,+ Proteins transport cationic amino acids as well as neutral amino acids SLC3/7
System B0 Proteins cotransport Na+ with neutral amino acids SLC6