The pstA gene encodes an integral membrane protein of the phosphate-specific transport system of Escherichia coli. The nucleotide change in the previously described pstA2 allele was found to be a G----A substitution at position 276 of the nucleotide sequence, resulting in the premature termination of translation. Three mutations in the pstA gene were produced by site-directed mutagenesis. The a...

background: investigating the performance of naturally operated treatment plants may be due to the fact that they cannot be operated as desired, or that they should be modified to achieve good performance e.g. for nutrients removal. the advantage of kinetic coefficient determination is that the model can be adjusted to fit data and then used for analyzing alternatives to improve the process. th...

Many plants have the capacity to obtain phosphate via a symbiotic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. In AM associations, the fungi release phosphate from differentiated hyphae called arbuscules, that develop within the cortical cells, and the plant transports the phosphate across a symbiotic membrane, called the periarbuscular membrane, into the cortical cell. In Medicago trunc...

The effects of vitamin D on transport of inorganic phosphate into and across rat intestinal mucosa in vifro were studied, and the results used to interpret observations on incorporation of 32P-labeled phosphate into mucosal lipid, protein, and nucleic acids. Vitamin D given to intact rats increases phosphate transport in vifro selectively in the direction mucosa to serosa. The sterol in vivo ac...