Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23108027›Full record

ArticleJournal of biotechnology2013

Hijacking membrane transporters for arsenic phytoextraction.

Melissa S LeBlanc, Elizabeth C McKinney, Richard B Meagher, Aaron P Smith

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Article in Journal of biotechnology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Melissa S LeBlancGenetics Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Elizabeth C McKinney
Richard B Meagher
Aaron P Smith
University of Georgia · USLouisiana State University · US

Funding

Application of ABC transporters toward enhanced arsenic detoxificationF32ES015414 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI LEBLANC, MELISSA SUE · 2007 to 2009
$154k
NIEHS NIH HHS 1F32ES01541NIEHS NIH HHS F32 ES015414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arsenic is a toxic metalloid and recognized carcinogen. Arsenate and arsenite are the most common arsenic species available for uptake by plants. As an inorganic phosphate (Pi) analog, arsenate is acquired by plant roots through endogenous Pi transport systems. Inside the cell, arsenate is reduced to the thiol-reactive form arsenite. Glutathione (GSH)-conjugates of arsenite may be extruded from the cell or sequestered in vacuoles by members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family of transporters. In the present study we sought to enhance both plant arsenic uptake through Pi transporter overexpression, and plant arsenic tolerance through ABC transporter overexpression. We demonstrate that Arabidopsis thaliana plants overexpressing the high-affinity Pi transporter family members, AtPht1;1 or AtPht1;7, are hypersensitive to arsenate due to increased arsenate uptake. These plants do not exhibit increased sensitivity to arsenite. Co-overexpression of the yeast ABC transporter YCF1 in combination with AtPht1;1 or AtPht1;7 suppresses the arsenate-sensitive phenotype while further enhancing arsenic uptake. Taken together, our results support an arsenic transport mechanism in which arsenate uptake is increased through Pi transporter overexpression, and arsenic tolerance is enhanced through YCF1-mediated vacuolar sequestration. This work substantiates the viability of coupling enhanced uptake and vacuolar sequestration as a means for developing a prototypical engineered arsenic hyperaccumulator.

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ArabidopsisArsenicArsenicalsATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBiodegradation, EnvironmentalBiotechnologyGlutathionePhenotypePlants, Genetically ModifiedSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsArsenicArsenicalsATP-Binding Cassette TransportersGlutathioneSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsYCF1 protein, S cerevisiae

Identifiers

PMID23108027
PMCPMC3539244
OpenAlexW2003725665

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