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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2006

Ammonium ion transport by the AMT/Rh homologue LeAMT1;1.

Maria Mayer, Marek Dynowski, Uwe Ludewig

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Function and Regulation of Ammonium Transporters in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  19. Direct observation of electrogenic NH4(+) transport in ammonium transport (Amt) proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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3 authors.

Maria MayerZentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen (ZMBP), Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Marek Dynowski
Uwe Ludewig

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AMT (ammonium transporter)/Rh (Rhesus) ammonium transporters/channels are identified in all domains of life and fulfil contrasting functions related either to ammonium acquisition or excretion. Based on functional and crystallographic high-resolution structural data, it was recently proposed that the bacterial AmtB (ammonium transporter B) is a gas channel for NH3 [Khademi, O'Connell, III, Remis, Robles-Colmenares, Miercke and Stroud (2004) Science 305, 1587-1594; Zheng, Kostrewa, Berneche, Winkler and Li (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 17090-17095]. Key residues, proposed to be crucial for NH3 conduction, and the hydrophobic, but obstructed, pore were conserved in a homology model of LeAMT1;1 from tomato. Transport by LeAMT1;1 was affected by mutations of residues that were predicted to constitute the aromatic recruitment site for NH4+ at the external pore entrance. Despite the structural similarities, LeAMT1;1 was shown to transport only the ion; each transported 14C-methylammonium molecule carried a single positive elementary charge. Similarly, NH4+ (or H+/NH3) was transported, but NH3 conduction was excluded. It is concluded that related proteins and a similar molecular architecture can apparently support contrasting transport mechanisms.

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AnimalsCation Transport ProteinsFemaleMethylaminesMutationOocytesPlant ProteinsQuaternary Ammonium CompoundsXenopusammonium transporters, plantCation Transport ProteinsmethylamineMethylaminesPlant ProteinsQuaternary Ammonium Compounds

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PMID16499477
PMCPMC1482825

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