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. 1967 Jul;42(7):953–958. doi: 10.1104/pp.42.7.953

Ion Absorption and Retention by Chlorella pyrenoidosa. III. Selective Accumulation of Rubidium, Potassium and Sodium 1

Michail Schaedle 1,2, Louis Jacobson 1,2
PMCID: PMC1086655  PMID: 16656602

Abstract

The selective preference of Chlorella pyrenoidosa for alkali metal cations was found to have the order Rb > K > > > Na. It was demonstrated that a cation of higher preference can replace in the cell cations of lower preference by an ion interchange process.

The replacement of Na from the cell by K or Rb occurred against high external Na concentrations up to 450 meq/1 Na.

It is suggested that the structural selectivity of the Chlorella cell may be amplified by a chromatographic type repetitive selection process, driven by metabolically dependent unsymmetric shape changes of cellular membranes.

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