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Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids

The identification of aquaglyceroporins as uptake channels for arsenic and antimony shows how these toxic elements can enter the food chain, and suggests that food plants could be genetically modified to exclude arsenic while still accumulating boron and silicon.

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Autores principales: Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy, Mukhopadhyay, Rita, Thiyagarajan, Saravanamuthu, Rosen, Barry P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/jbiol91