Chloride concentration in cytoplasm and in phosphate-rich cytoplasmic granules

Range >60 mM
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Coury LA, McGeoch JE, Guidotti G, Brodsky JL. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae does not sequester chloride but can express a functional mammalian chloride channel. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1999 Oct 15 179(2):327-32. p.327 right column top paragraphPubMed ID10518733
Primary Source Roomans, G.M. (1980) Localization of divalent cations in phosphate-rich cytoplasmic granules in yeast. Physiol. Plant. 48, 47-50 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1980.tb03217.x
Comments "Roomans found the chloride content in both the cytoplasm and in phosphate-rich cytoplasmic granules to be greater than 60 mM [primary source] however, the cells were aerated in distilled water for one day before RbCl or CsCl-loading."
Entered by Uri M
ID 110738