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Glucose Transporter Families SGLT and GLUT: Molecular Basis of Normal and Aberrant Function, The JPEN: Journal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Furthermore, several congenital defects of sugar metabolism are caused by aberrant transporter genes (eg, the glucose-galactose malabsorption syndrome, SGLT1; the glucose transporter 1 deficiency syndrome; and the Fanconi-Bickel syndrome, GLUT2). |
 | | Because the lipid bilayer of the eucaryotic plasma membrane is impermeable for hydrophilic molecules, glucose is transported across the plasma membrane by membrane associated carrier proteins, glucose transporters. |
 | | The sodium-dependent glucose transporters, also known as co-transporters or symporters, are integral membrane proteins that mediate the transport of glucose and, with much lower affinity, galactose across the plasma membrane by an active transport mechanism.15 This transport process is a cotransport of glucose molecules and sodium ions. |
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