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Epithelial uric acid transport proteins and their allelic variants
Vrzáčková, Aneta ; Tlapáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Pavelcová, Kateřina (referee)
In humans, uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism and it is excreted from the body on the one hand by the epithelium lining the tubules of the nephrons, and on the other hand by the intestinal epithelium. This work aims to verify the activity of three candidate transporters from the SLC family (SLC2215, SLC22A18 and SLC47A1) that could transport uric acid in the intestinal epithelium. Preliminary results did not demonstrate that these transporters are involved in uric acid transport in the intestinal epithelium. Furthermore, the work deals with the influence of the W75C allelic variant of the SLC17A1 transporter and the mechanism by which this variant affects the transport of urate in cells. Key words: SLC22A15, SLC22A18, SLC47A1, SLC17A1, transport, epithel, uric acid
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