Aquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloids.

ABSTRACT: The identification of aquaglyceroporins as uptake channels for arsenic and antimony shows how these toxic elements can enter the food chain, and suggests that food plants could be genetically modified to exclude arsenic while still accumulating boron and silicon.

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharjee H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2776386 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature