Transition metals such as copper are essential for many physiological processes yet can be
toxic at elevated levels. Other metals (eg lead) are nonessential and potentially highly toxic …

The last ten years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of zinc transporters
and their regulation in eukaryotic organisms. Two families of transporters, the ZIP (Zrt-, I rt …

The effect of growing pea (Pisum sativum L.) plants with CdCl2 (0–50 μM) on different plant
physiological parameters and antioxidative enzymes of leaves was studied in order to know …

Uptake and translocation of cationic nutrients play essential roles in physiological processes
including plant growth, nutrition, signal transduction, and development. Approximately 5% of …

A total of 45 genes encoding for P-type ATPases have been identified in the complete
genome sequence of Arabidopsis. Thus, this plant harbors a primary transport capability not …

Iron uptake from the soil is a tightly controlled process in plant roots, involving specialized
transporters. One such transporter, IRT1, was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana and shown …

The ZIP superfamily of transporters plays important roles in metal ion uptake in diverse
organisms. There are 12 ZIP-encoding genes in humans, and we hypothesize that many of …

The use of plants to clean-up soils contaminated with trace elements could provide a cheap
and sustainable technology for bioremediation. Field trials suggested that the rate of …

Although iron deficiency poses severe nutritional problems to crop plants, to date iron
transporters have only been characterized from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. To …

Two human divalent cation transporters of the ZIP family, hZip1 and hZip2, homologous to
Irt1 (Arabidopsis thaliana), the first identified member, have been described. They were …