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antiporter

[an·tē′pȯrd·ər]

(cell and molecular biology)

A channel protein that simultaneously or sequentially transports two different types of substrates across a cell membrane, one into the cell (for example sodium ion) and one out of the cell (for example calcium ion).

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The phylogenetic tree of the [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiport sequences (SOS1), based on higher plants, animals, fungi, and Escherichia coli, indicated two distinct "clusters", as supported by the high bootstrap value, i.e., a vacuole cluster and a plasma membrane cluster, which indicates that Musa 07 is a fragment of the [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiporter gene (Figure 2).

Mechanisms of tolerance to salinity in banana: physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects/Mecanismos de tolerancia a salinidade em bananeira: aspectos fisiologicos, bioquimicos e moleculares

We can consider what will happen if only symport rules or antiport rules are allowed in timed tissue P systems.

Time-Free Solution to SAT Problem by Tissue P Systems

The mutation that deactivated [DELTA]12 and [DELTA]-6 desaturase drastically inhibited [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiport activity of the mutant cells in cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp.

Role of the plasma membrane in saline conditions: lipids and proteins

Salt tolerance conferred by overexpression of a vacuolar Na/H antiport in Arabidopsis.

Alleviation of water stress in fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) using different PGPR application methods

Cotransport may be in the same direction (symport) or in the opposite direction (antiport).

Transendothelial transport and its role in therapeutics

Blumwald, "Salt tolerance conferred by overexpression of a vacuolar [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiport in Arabidopsis," Science, vol.

Molecular cloning and bioinformatics analysis of a new plasma membrane [NA.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiporter gene from the halophyte Kosteletzkya virginica

[45] include membrane voltage-sensitive ion channels, [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiport, [Ca.sup.2+] signaling, multiple pharmacologically distinct intracellular [Ca.sup.2+] stores, cAMP/PKA, PKC, nitric oxide, cGMP, MEK/ERK, and PI3K.

Upregulation of voltage-gated calcium channel [Ca.sup.V] 1.3 in bovine somatotropes treated with Ghrelin

Ions are transported by [Na.sup.+]/[H.sup.+] antiport transporters on the tonoplast or in the plasmatic membrane (APSE; BLUMWALD, 2007).

Detection of genes providing salinity-tolerance in rice/Deteccao de genes que conferem tolerancia a salinidade em planta de arroz

--Removing Ca from the cell by the Na-Ca sarcolemma antiport mechanism and through the action of the sarcolemma pump.

The role of movement in increasing of bone density

Farias, "Shortterm effects of thyroid hormones on the Na/H antiport in L6 myoblasts: high molecular specificity for 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine," Endocrinology, vol.