Agp2, a member of the yeast amino acid permease family, positively regulates polyamine transport at the transcriptional level.

Agp2 is a plasma membrane protein of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae amino acid transporter family, involved in high-affinity uptake of various substrates including L-carnitine and polyamines. The discovery of two high affinity polyamine permeases, Dur3 and Sam3, prompted us to investigate whether Agp2...

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Main Authors: Mustapha Aouida, Marta Rubio-Texeira, Johan M Thevelein, Richard Poulin, Dindial Ramotar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3670898?pdf=render