Article
The capacity to transport potassium influences sodium tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Jan 1996
Gómez M J, Luyten K, Ramos J
Abstract excerpt
The capacity to transport potassium and to discriminate between the different alkali cations has been found to affect sodium tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutants with a defective capacity to transport K+ were more sensitive to high concentrations of Na+ because they accumulated more Na+...
Topics
- Carrier Proteins
- Cation Transport Proteins
- Fungal Proteins
- Ion Transport
- Membrane Proteins
- Mutation
- Potassium
- Rubidium
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Sodium
