Description
Product Characteristics:
Mediates equilibrative transport of purine, pyrimidine nucleosides and the purine base hypoxanthine. Very less sensitive than SLC29A1 to inhibition by nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBMPR), dipyridamole, dilazep and draflazine.
Subcellular location: Nucleus, Cell membrane
Synonyms: ENT2, DER12, HNP36, Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2, 36 kDa nucleolar protein HNP36, Delayed-early response protein 12, Equilibrative nitrobenzylmercaptopurine riboside-insensitive nucleoside transporter, Equilibrative NBMPR-insensitive nucleoside transporter, Hydrophobic nucleolar protein, 36 kDa, Nucleoside transporter, ei-type, Solute carrier family 29 member 2, SLC29A2
Target Information: The uptake of nucleosides by transporters, such as SLC29A2, is essential for nucleotide synthesis by salvage pathways in cells that lack de novo biosynthetic pathways. Nucleoside transport also plays a key role in the regulation of many physiologic processes through its effect on adenosine concentration at the cell surface (Griffiths et al., 1997 [PubMed 9396714]).[supplied by OMIM, Nov 2008]