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Does the non-saturable cell entry apply to the charge-free form of amino acids?
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|September 5, 1977
Abstract:
The slow cellular entry shown by neutral alpha-amino acids at very high concentrations appears not to arise from diffusion of the totally uncharged species through the plasma membrane of the Ehrlich cell, judging from a similarity of the rates observed for the two conformational isomers of 1-amino-2-hydroxy-cyclohexane-carboxylic acid. One of these isomers provides in neutral solution 4 times as large a proportion of the charge-free species as the other, and 5 times the proportion calculated for alanine.