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SUBMITTER: Checchetto V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3390830 | biostudies-other | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Checchetto Vanessa V Segalla Anna A Allorent Guillaume G La Rocca Nicoletta N Leanza Luigi L Giacometti Giorgio Mario GM Uozumi Nobuyuki N Finazzi Giovanni G Bergantino Elisabetta E Szabò Ildikò I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120618 27
A potassium channel (SynK) of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, a photoheterotrophic model organism for the study of photosynthesis, has been recently identified and demonstrated to function as a potassium selective channel when expressed in a heterologous system and to be located predominantly to the thylakoid membrane in cyanobacteria. To study its physiological role, a SynK-less knockout mutant was generated and characterized. Fluorimetric experiments indicated that SynK-less cya ...[more]