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ToolsSharma, Yogesh, Hemmings, Andrew M., Deshmukh, Rupesh and Pareek, Ashwani (2025) Metalloid transporters in plants: Bridging the gap in molecular structure and physiological exaptation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76 (5). pp. 1370-1389. ISSN 0022-0957
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Abstract
The rhizosphere contains both essential nutrients and potentially harmful substances for plant growth. Plants, as sessile organisms, must efficiently absorb the necessary nutrients while actively avoiding the uptake of toxic compounds. Metalloids, elements that exhibit properties of both metals and non-metals, can have different effects on plant growth, from being essential and beneficial to being toxic. This toxicity arises due to either the dosage of exposure or the specific elemental type. To utilize or detoxify these elements, plants have developed various transporters regulating their uptake and distribution in plants. Genomic sequence analysis suggests that such transporter families exist throughout the plant kingdom, from chlorophytes to higher plants. These transporters form defined families with related transport preferences. The isoforms within these families have evolved with specialized functions regulated by defined selectivity. Hence, understanding the chemistry of transporters to atomic detail is important to achieve the desired genetic modifications for crop improvement. We outline various adaptations in plant transport systems to deal with metalloids, including their uptake, distribution, detoxification, and homeostasis in plant tissues. Structural parallels are drawn to other nutrient transporter systems to support emerging themes of functional diversity of active sites of transporters, elucidating plant adaptations to utilize and extrude metalloid concentrations. Considering the observed physiological importance of metalloids, this review highlights the shared and disparate features in metalloid transport systems and their corresponding nutrient transporters.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for a Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) to YS. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | metalloid,crop improvement,homeostasis,boron,arsenide,selenium,silicin,transporter,silicon,alphafold,arsenite,physiology,plant science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1314 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Life Processes Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2024 14:34 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2025 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96473 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jxb/erae261 |
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