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Evolution of vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase domains and volutin granules: clues into the early evolutionary origin of the acidocalcisome

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Direct, October 2011
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Title
Evolution of vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase domains and volutin granules: clues into the early evolutionary origin of the acidocalcisome
Published in
Biology Direct, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1745-6150-6-50
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Authors

Manfredo J Seufferheld, Kyung Mo Kim, James Whitfield, Alejandro Valerio, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Abstract

Volutin granules appear to be universally distributed and are morphologically and chemically identical to acidocalcisomes, which are electron-dense granular organelles rich in calcium and phosphate, whose functions include storage of phosphorus and various metal ions, metabolism of polyphosphate, maintenance of intracellular pH, osmoregulation and calcium homeostasis. Prokaryotes are thought to differ from eukaryotes in that they lack membrane-bounded organelles. However, it has been demonstrated that as in acidocalcisomes, the calcium and polyphosphate-rich intracellular "volutin granules (polyphosphate bodies)" in two bacterial species, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and Rhodospirillum rubrum, are membrane bound and that the vacuolar proton-translocating pyrophosphatases (V-H+PPases) are present in their surrounding membranes. Volutin granules and acidocalcisomes have been found in organisms as diverse as bacteria and humans.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 6%
United Kingdom 3 4%
Portugal 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 61 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 36%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 6%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 6 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 51%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 6%
Computer Science 3 4%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 7 10%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2011.
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#1,507,027
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#37
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#6,890
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#2
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