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SUBMITTER: Lan WZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2872450 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lan Wen-Zhi WZ Wang Wei W Wang Suo-Min SM Li Le-Gong LG Buchanan Bob B BB Lin Hong-Xuan HX Gao Ji-Ping JP Luan Sheng S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100329 15
Plant high-affinity K(+) transport (HKT) proteins are so named because of their relation to bacterial and fungal transporters that mediate high-affinity K(+) uptake. The view that HKT family members are sodium-selective uniporters or sodium-potassium symporters is widely held. We have found that one of the rice HKT proteins also functions as a Ca(2+)-permeable cation channel that conducts current carried by a wide range of monovalent and divalent cations. The HKT rice gene, named OsHKT2;4, is ex ...[more]