title: Insight into renal Mg2+ transporters.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review aims to describe the recent findings concerning novel Mg transporters as putative interesting players in renal transepithelial Mg transport.
  
  
  RESULTS
  So far, the best characterized Mg transport proteins are found in prokaryotes and yeast cells. In recent years, phylogenetic analysis and differential gene expression studies have led to the identification of numerous genes associated with Mg transport in eukaryotes. In addition to the well known transient receptor potential channel melastatin (TRPM), members 6 and 7, and the mitochondrial transporter Mrs2, additional Mg-transporting protein families can be acknowledged including the magnesium (Mag) transporters, the solute carrier (SLC) family 41 members, ancient conserved domain proteins (ACDP), nonimprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome (NIPA) proteins, membrane Mg transporters (MMgT) and huntingtin-interacting protein 14 (HIP14).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The identification of several mammalian proteins involved in Mg transport highlights the physiological importance of this cation and its tight regulation in numerous tissues. Further investigation of these transporters might represent a key tool to complement our current knowledge about renal Mg handling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferrè
authors.forename: Joost G J
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Hoenderop
authors.forename: René J M
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Bindels
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000502:physiology; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D050053:TRPM Cation Channels / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins; C509698:MagT1 protein, human; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C476304:SLC41A1 protein, human; D050053:TRPM Cation Channels; C459082:TRPM6 protein, human; D000217:Acyltransferases; C473038:ZDHHC17 protein, human; D008274:Magnesium