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Journal of Experimental Botany 2007 58(9):2279-2287; doi:10.1093/jxb/erm106
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Inorganic nitrogen assimilation in Chlamydomonas

Emilio Fernandez* and Aurora Galvan

Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, Córdoba 14071, Spain

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bb1feree{at}uco.es

Inorganic nitrogen is an essential nutrient for photosynthetic organisms. Its efficient use in nature involves adaptation of the organisms to the availability of the nitrogen supply, to changing environmental conditions, and to the provision of carbon and other nutrients. The unicellular alga Chlamydomonas provides a useful model to identify not only each of the components participating in the assimilative process in a species, but also the regulatory networks modulating their activity. A remarkable fact is the ample array of transporters for inorganic nitrogen compounds operating in this single cell: 13 putative nitrate/nitrite transporters and eight putative ammonium transporters. However, for nitrate, only a few of them participate as the main suppliers of nitrogen for cell growth, and others probably function to adapt nitrogen utilization efficiency to conditions depending not only on the nitrogen source available but also on other nutrients and environmental conditions. This paper summarizes recent findings in Chlamydomonas to provide an integrated perspective.

Key words: Ammonium transport, bicarbonate transport, Chlamydomonas, negative control, nitrate signalling, nitrate transport, nitrite transport, plastidic nitrite transport

Received 3 January 2007; Revised 26 March 2007 Accepted 16 April 2007


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