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Special interests:
- Subcellular targeting of the glucose transporter (GLUT) 4 in mammalian cells (CHO-cells, rat adipose cells*)
- Targeting of two novel glucose transporters GLUT6 and GLUT9 (Lisinski et al., 2001)
- Characterization (screening) of new GLUT4 binding proteins
- Construction of GLUT-mutants
- Cell culture (transfection of cells, cell-surface antibody binding assay*)
- Molecular biology
- In vitro- and in vivo-assays
*Dr. Samuel W. Cushman, Diabetes Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.