2008
Exon Loss Accounts for Differential Sorting of Na-K-Cl Cotransporters in Polarized Epithelial Cells
Carmosino M, Giménez I, Caplan M, Forbush B. Exon Loss Accounts for Differential Sorting of Na-K-Cl Cotransporters in Polarized Epithelial Cells. Molecular Biology Of The Cell 2008, 19: 4341-4351. PMID: 18667527, PMCID: PMC2555935, DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e08-05-0478.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDileucine motifNa-K-Cl cotransporterRenal Na-K-Cl cotransporterPolarized epithelial cellsAmino acid stretchApical proteinsApical sortingEvolutionary lossRenal epithelial cell lineGene structurePhylogenetic analysisDifferential sortingDirect traffickingEpithelial cell lineAdditional exonC-terminusMammalian kidneyApical membraneExonsNovel mechanismNKCC2 geneCell linesBasolateral membraneMotifEpithelial cells
2003
The COOH-terminal tail of the GAT-2 GABA transporter contains a novel motif that plays a role in basolateral targeting
Brown A, Muth T, Caplan M. The COOH-terminal tail of the GAT-2 GABA transporter contains a novel motif that plays a role in basolateral targeting. American Journal Of Physiology - Cell Physiology 2003, 286: c1071-c1077. PMID: 15075206, DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00291.2003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBasolateral targetingTerminal tailAmino acidsBasolateral distributionPlasma membrane domainsMadin-Darby canine kidney cellsCanine kidney cellsMembrane domainsTransmembrane proteinNovel motifCOOH terminusMolecular signalsAcid transportersGamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) transportersVectorial transportPolar distributionTransportersButyric acid transporterGAT-2Kidney cellsMotifGABA transporterProteinTargetingAsymmetrical distribution