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Aluminum (Al) transport across yeast cells was studied using Dy(NO3)3 as a shift reagent by 27Al-NMR spectroscopy. The results showed that (a) Al enters the yeast cells at 15 min and over a period of time, within 4 h, an equilibrium sets in between outside and inside Al; (b) citrate does not favor Al going into the yeast cells at pH 5.0; and (c) EDTA brings out all the Al that has entered the yeast cells. (Mol Cell Biochem 175: 59–63, 1997)
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Jagannatha Rao, K., Easwaran, K. 27Al-NMR studies of aluminum transport across yeast cell membranes. Mol Cell Biochem 175, 59–63 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006885228074
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