Issue 7, 2012

Cellular transport and homeostasis of essential and nonessential metals

Abstract

Metals can have a number of detrimental or beneficial effects in the cell, but first they must get in. Organisms have evolved transport mechanisms to get metals that are required, or essential into the cell. Nonessential metals often enter the cell through use of the machinery provided for essential metals. Much work has been done to advance our understanding of how these metals are transported across plasma and organelle membranes. This review provides an overview of essential and nonessential metal transport and homeostatic processes.

Graphical abstract: Cellular transport and homeostasis of essential and nonessential metals

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
19 Dec 2011
Accepted
03 Feb 2012
First published
06 Feb 2012

Metallomics, 2012,4, 593-605

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