The molecular physiology of heavy metal transport in the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens
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The molecular physiology of heavy metal transport in the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens.
An integrated molecular and physiological investigation of the fundamental mechanisms of heavy metal accumulation was conducted in Thlaspi caerulescens, a Zn/Cd-hyperaccumulating plant species. A heavy metal transporter cDNA, ZNT1, was cloned from T. caerulescens through functional complementation in yeast and was shown to mediate high-affinity Zn(2+) uptake as well as low-affinity Cd(2+) uptak...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.9.4956