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Mechanosensitive ion channel MscL controls ionic fluxes during cold and heat stress in Synechocystis.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jun 2015
Bachin Dmitry, Nazarenko Lyudmila V, Mironov Kirill S, Pisareva Tatiana, Allakhverdiev Suleyman I, Los Dmitry A
Abstract excerpt
Calcium plays an essential role in a variety of stress responses of eukaryotic cells; however, its function in prokaryotes is obscure. Bacterial ion channels that transport Ca(2+) are barely known. We investigated temperature-induced changes in intracellular concentration of Ca(2+), Na(+) and K(+) in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 and its mutant that is defective in mechanosensitive ion...
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