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
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author Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy
Mukhopadhyay, Rita
Thiyagarajan, Saravanamuthu
Rosen, Barry P
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description 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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spelling pubmed-27763862009-11-13 Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy Mukhopadhyay, Rita Thiyagarajan, Saravanamuthu Rosen, Barry P J Biol Minireview 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. BioMed Central 2008 2008-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2776386/ /pubmed/19014407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/jbiol91 Text en Copyright © 2008 BioMed Central Ltd
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Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy
Mukhopadhyay, Rita
Thiyagarajan, Saravanamuthu
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Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title_full Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title_fullStr Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title_full_unstemmed Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title_short Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
title_sort aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids
topic Minireview
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/jbiol91
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