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Structure and Function of Thyroid Hormone Plasma Membrane Transporters

Thyroid hormones (TH) cross the plasma membrane with the help of transporter proteins. As charged amino acid derivatives, TH cannot simply diffuse across a lipid bilayer membrane, despite their notorious hydrophobicity. The identification of monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8, SLC16A2) as a specifi...

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Autores principales: Schweizer, Ulrich, Johannes, Jörg, Bayer, Dorothea, Braun, Doreen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000367858