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Electrophysiological properties of NtTPK1 expressed in yeast tonoplast
Shin Hamamoto1, Isamu Yabe, Nobuyuki Uozumi
1Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|October 8, 2008
Abstract:
The patch clamp technique using enlarged yeast tonoplasts is an effective approach to characterizing the Nicotiana tabacum plant tonoplast K+ channel, NtTPK1. We report here that the NtTPK1-mediated currents comprise two phase components, both which were found to be highly selective for K+ over Na+ and Cl-.
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