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Rhesus factors and ammonium: a function in efflux?

Uwe Ludewig, Nico von Wirén, Doris Rentsch and Wolf B Frommer*

Author Affiliations

Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

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Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1010-reviews1010.5 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-3-reviews1010

Published: 9 March 2001

Abstract

Completion of fungal, plant and human genomes paved the way to the identification of erythrocytic rhesus proteins and their kidney homologs as ammonium transporters.