Transporter networks can serve plant cells as nutrient sensors and mimic transceptor-like behavior
Ingo Drèyer, Kunkun Li, Janin Riedelsberger, Rainer Hedrich, Kai R. Konrad, Erwan Michard
Abstract
transients as predicted. We show that transporter networks do not only serve their primary task of transport, but can also take on the role of a receptor without requiring conformational changes of a transporter protein. Such transceptor-like phenomena may be quite common in plants.
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TransporterNutrientChemistryNanotechnologyComputational biologyCell biologyBiologyBiochemistryEcologyMaterials scienceGenePlant nutrient uptake and metabolismPlant Molecular Biology ResearchPhotosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms