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Electrobiology of fungal hyphae
F M Harold1, W J Schreurs, R L Harold
1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80206.
Microbiological Sciences
|December 1, 1985
Abstract:
Hyphae of many fungi drive electric currents through themselves. In Achlya bisexualis the current is carried by protons which enter the apical region by symport with amino acids and are expelled distally. The proton current may play a role in the spatial localization of apical growth.