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ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology2017

Regulating cellular trace metal economy in algae.

Crysten E Blaby-Haas, Sabeeha S Merchant

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Review in Current opinion in plant biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Microbial metal physiology: ions to ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025
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  12. Photoprotection during iron deficiency is mediated by the bHLH transcription factors PYE and ILR3.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  14. Single-cell visualization and quantification of trace metals inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  18. From economy to luxury: Copper homeostasis in Chlamydomonas and other algae.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Crysten E Blaby-HaasBiology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 50 Bell Avenue, Building 463, Upton, NY 11973, USA. Electronic address: cblaby@bnl.gov.
Sabeeha S MerchantDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, USA; Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, 611 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, USA.
Brookhaven National Laboratory · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Nutritional Cu Signaling and HomeostasisR01GM042143 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SABEEHA MERCHANT · 1995 to 2026
$4.6M
Nutritional Copper Signaling and HomeostasisR37GM042143 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MERCHANT, SABEEHA · 2011 to 2020
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM042143NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM042143
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As indispensable protein cofactors, Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn are at the center of multifaceted acclimation mechanisms that have evolved to ensure extracellular supply meets intracellular demand. Starting with selective transport at the plasma membrane and ending in protein metalation, metal homeostasis in algae involves regulated trafficking of metal ions across membranes, intracellular compartmentalization by proteins and organelles, and metal-sparing/recycling mechanisms to optimize metal-use efficiency. Overlaid on these processes are additional circuits that respond to the metabolic state as well as to the prior metal status of the cell. In this review, we focus on recent progress made toward understanding the pathways by which the single-celled, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii controls its cellular trace metal economy. We also compare these mechanisms to characterized and putative processes in other algal lineages. Photosynthetic microbes continue to provide insight into cellular regulation and handling of Cu, Fe, Zn and Mn as a function of the nutritional supply and cellular demand for metal cofactors. New experimental tools such as RNA-Seq and subcellular metal imaging are bringing us closer to a molecular understanding of acclimation to supply dynamics in algae and beyond.

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Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiMetals, HeavyMetals, Heavy

Identifiers

PMID28672168
PMCPMC5595633
OpenAlexW2725019350

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