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Marine bacteria can extract all phosphate from seawater using positive charge of their cell membrane

  • Mikhail Zubkov

Imprensa/meios de comunicação: Research

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https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/Research/Highlights/2020/Marine-bacteria-can-extract-all-phosphate-from-seawater-using-positive-charge-of-their-cell-membrane.html

Período27 out. 2020

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  • TítuloMarine bacteria can extract all phosphate from seawater using positive charge of their cell membrane
    Nome/saída de meios de comunicaçãoDiamond Light Source
    Tipo de meios de comunicaçãoWeb
    País/TerritórioUnited Kingdom
    Data27/10/20
    DescriçãoScientists have discovered how the most abundant marine bacteria – fundamental to life on Earth – can extract all phosphate from seawater using positive charge of their cell membrane.

    The findings, which have been published in Nature Communications, show how a bacterial cell enveloped in two layers of membrane uses its energetic capacity to positively charge the inner membrane in order to extract negatively-charged phosphate from seawater. The acquired phosphate is then stocked inside the bacterial “skin” - the periplasmic space between the outer and inner membranes. This is contrary to long-held view that bacteria acquire phosphate by keeping the periplasmic space void of phosphate to make it diffuse from the outside.
    URLhttps://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/Research/Highlights/2020/Marine-bacteria-can-extract-all-phosphate-from-seawater-using-positive-charge-of-their-cell-membrane.html
    PessoasMikhail Zubkov