Genetics And Disease Associations Of Organic Cation Transporters With IBD – Special Emphasis On Genetic And Functional Studies Of SLC22A23
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2015
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Chaity, Nazia
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease which steadily increases worldwide with the highest prevalence in Canada. Genetic susceptibility is considered to be an important factor in causing IBD.
Organic cation transporters, SLC22A4 and SLC22A5 have been associated to IBD multiple times. Recently, SLC22A23, a novel gene that encodes for an organic cation membrane transporter protein has also been associated to IBD however; neither its gene structure nor its functions has been characterized.
The aim of this study was to characterize the genomic structure of SLC22A23 gene using bioinformatics analysis, determine the tissue expression, characterize the location of the protein and perform functional studies using Liquid Chromatography-Quadrupole Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry.
We have identified the chromosomal location, the gene neighborhood and the genomic structure of human SLC22A23.The result of this study indicates that SLC22A23 gene is a membrane transporter and it is abundantly expressed in the intestine.
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IBD- Inflammatory Bowel Disease, SLC22A23