Nature Genetics
26, 258 - 259 (2000)
doi:10.1038/81532
A new face of the Rhesus antigenJoseph Heitman1
& Peter Agre21
Department of Genetics and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. heitm001@mc.duke.edu
2
Departments of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. pagre@jhmi.edu
The Mep ammonium transporters of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
share amino acid sequence identity with the Rh blood group antigen proteins.
A new study shows that the Rhg glycoproteins transport ammonium when heterologously
expressed in mep mutant yeast cells, indicating a role for the Rh antigen
complex.
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