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Knocking out ACR2 does not affect arsenic redox status in Arabidopsis thaliana: implications for as detoxification and accumulation in plants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Liu Wenju, Schat Henk, Bliek Mathijs, Chen Yi, McGrath Steve P, George Graham, Salt David E, Zhao Fang-Jie
Abstract excerpt
Many plant species are able to reduce arsenate to arsenite efficiently, which is an important step allowing detoxification of As through either efflux of arsenite or complexation with thiol compounds. It has been suggested that this reduction is catalyzed by ACR2, a plant homologue of the yeast arsenate reductase ScACR2. Silencing of AtACR2 was reported to result in As hyperaccumulation in the shoots of...
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