Title : The glycine transporter GLYT1 in human intestine: expression and function.

Pub. Date : 2011

PMID : 21628872






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1 The specific glycine transporter GLYT1 is found throughout the human intestine where it is responsible for some 30-50% of glycine uptake into intestinal epithelial cells across the basolateral membrane and appears to function to maintain glycine supply to enterocytes and colonocytes. Glycine solute carrier family 6 member 9 Homo sapiens
2 The specific glycine transporter GLYT1 is found throughout the human intestine where it is responsible for some 30-50% of glycine uptake into intestinal epithelial cells across the basolateral membrane and appears to function to maintain glycine supply to enterocytes and colonocytes. Glycine solute carrier family 6 member 9 Homo sapiens
3 This paper reviews current knowledge of GLYT1 and presents recent evidence supporting its essential role in glycine mediated cytoprotection in intestinal absorptive cells. Glycine solute carrier family 6 member 9 Homo sapiens