FEBS Letters
Volume 581, Issue 12 , Pages 2281-2289, 25 May 2007

Transporters for uptake and allocation of organic nitrogen compounds in plants

Edited by Ulf-Ingo Flügge and Julian Schroeder

  • Doris Rentsch

      Affiliations

    • University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences, Altenbergrain 21, 3011 Bern, Switzerland
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  • Susanne Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • University of Queensland, School of Integrative Biology, Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia
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  • Mechthild Tegeder

      Affiliations

    • Washington State University, School of Biological Sciences, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USA
    • Fax: +1 509 335 3184.

Received 20 February 2007; received in revised form 10 April 2007; accepted 11 April 2007. published online 18 April 2007.

Abstract 

Nitrogen is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. Following uptake from the soil or assimilation within the plant, organic nitrogen compounds are transported between organelles, from cell to cell and over long distances in support of plant metabolism and development. These translocation processes require the function of integral membrane transporters. The review summarizes our current understanding of the molecular mechanisms of organic nitrogen transport processes, with a focus on amino acid, ureide and peptide transporters.

Keywords: Transport, Organic nitrogen, Amino acid, Peptide, Ureide, Assimilate partitioning

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PII: S0014-5793(07)00395-X

doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.013

FEBS Letters
Volume 581, Issue 12 , Pages 2281-2289, 25 May 2007

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