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Specific cesium transport via the Escherichia coli Kup (TrkD) K+ uptake system
D Bossemeyer1, A Schlösser, E P Bakker
1Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Universität Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany.
Journal of Bacteriology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
Escherichia coli cells which contain a functional Kup (formerly TrkD) system took up Cs+ with a moderate rate and affinity. Kup is a separate K+ uptake system with relatively little discrimination in the transport of the cations K+, Rb+, and Cs+. Regardless of the presence or absence of Kup, K+-replete cells took up Cs+ primarily by a very low affinity mode, proportional to the ratio of the Cs+ and K+ concentrations in the medium.