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11525504

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
Transition metals such as copper are essential for many physiological processes yet can be toxic at elevated levels. Other metals (e.g. lead) are nonessential and potentially highly toxic. Plants--like all other organisms--possess homeostatic mechanisms to maintain the correct concentrations of essential metal ions in different cellular compartments and to minimize the damage from exposure to nonessential metal ions. A regulated network of metal transport, chelation, trafficking and sequestration activities functions to provide the uptake, distribution and detoxification of metal ions. Some of the components of this network have now been identified: a number of uptake transporters have been cloned as well as candidate transporters for the vacuolar sequestration of metals. Chelators and chaperones are known, and evidence for intracellular metal trafficking is emerging. This recent progress in the molecular understanding of plant metal homeostasis and tolerance is reviewed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0032-0935
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
212
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
475-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular mechanisms of plant metal tolerance and homeostasis.
pubmed:affiliation
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Department of Stress and Environmental Biology, Halle, Saale, Germany. sclemens@ipb-halle.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't