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MinireviewAquaglyceroporins: ancient channels for metalloidsHiranmoy Bhattacharjee, Rita Mukhopadhyay, Saravanamuthu Thiyagarajan and Barry P Rosen Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA Journal of Biology 2008,
7:33doi:10.1186/jbiol91
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7 November 2008 |
Abstract
The identification of aquaglyceroporins as uptake channels for arsenic and antimony shows how these toxic elements can enter the food chain, and suggests that food plants could be genetically modified to exclude arsenic while still accumulating boron and silicon. | 
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