The solute specificity profiles of nucleobase cation symporter 1 (NCS1) from Zea mays and Setaria viridis illustrate functional flexibility

Biochemical characterization and structure–function relationship of two plant NCS2 proteins, the nucleobase transporters NAT3 and NAT12 from Arabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Sandra Niopek-Witz et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Structure-Function Relationship of a Plant NCS1 Member – Homology Modeling and Mutagenesis Identified Residues Critical for Substrate Specificity of PLUTO, a Nucleobase Transporter from Arabidopsis

(2014) Sandra Witz et al.   PLoS One

Common Folds and Transport Mechanisms of Secondary Active Transporters

(2013) Yigong Shi   Annual Review of Biophysics

Structural investigation of the proton-coupled secondary transporters

(2013) Nieng Yan   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Recycling of pyridoxine (vitamin B6) by PUP1 in Arabidopsis

(2013) Nicolas Szydlowski et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The nucleobase cation symporter 1 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and that of the evolutionarily distant Arabidopsis thaliana display parallel function and establish a plant-specific solute transport profile

(2013) Jessica R. Schein et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

A comparative study of structures and structural transitions of secondary transporters with the LeuT fold

(2012) Gunnar Jeschke   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Genetic and molecular characterization reveals a unique nucleobase cation symporter 1 in Arabidopsis

(2012) George S. Mourad et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Modeling, Substrate Docking, and Mutational Analysis Identify Residues Essential for the Function and Specificity of a Eukaryotic Purine-Cytosine NCS1 Transporter

(2012) Emilia Krypotou et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria

(2012) Jeffrey L Bennetzen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

De Novo Pyrimidine Nucleotide Synthesis Mainly Occurs outside of Plastids, but a Previously Undiscovered Nucleobase Importer Provides Substrates for the Essential Salvage Pathway inArabidopsis

(2012) Sandra Witz et al.   PLANT CELL

Soybean ureide transporters play a critical role in nodule development, function and nitrogen export

(2012) Ray Collier et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

An expanding role for purine uptake permease-like transporters in plant secondary metabolism

(2012) John G. Jelesko   Frontiers in Plant Science

Evolution of cytokinin biosynthesis and degradation

(2011) I. Frebort et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Phytozome: a comparative platform for green plant genomics

(2011) David M. Goodstein et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The biochemistry of nitrogen mobilization: purine ring catabolism

(2011) Andrea K. Werner et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The alternating access mechanism of transport as observed in the sodium-hydantoin transporter Mhp1

(2010) Simone Weyand et al.   JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION

Reconstruction of Metabolic Pathways, Protein Expression, and Homeostasis Machineries across Maize Bundle Sheath and Mesophyll Chloroplasts: Large-Scale Quantitative Proteomics Using the First Maize Genome Assembly

(2010) G. Friso et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular Basis of Alternating Access Membrane Transport by the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1

(2010) T. Shimamura et al.   SCIENCE

AtAzg1 and AtAzg2 comprise a novel family of purine transporters in Arabidopsis

(2009) Tyler A. Mansfield et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Convergent evolution and orphan genes in the Fur4p-like family and characterization of a general nucleoside transporter inAspergillus nidulans

(2009) Zsuzsanna Hamari et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A functional analysis of the pyrimidine catabolic pathway in Arabidopsis

(2009) Rita Zrenner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Sequencing, Mapping, and Analysis of 27,455 Maize Full-Length cDNAs

(2009) Carol Soderlund et al.   PLoS Genetics

The nucleobase–ascorbate transporter (NAT) family: genomics, evolution, structure–function relationships and physiological role

(2008) Christos Gournas et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Characterization of Cytokinin and Adenine Transport in Arabidopsis Cell Cultures

(2008) A. Cedzich et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Structure and Molecular Mechanism of a Nucleobase-Cation-Symport-1 Family Transporter

(2008) S. Weyand et al.   SCIENCE

Caffeine and related purine alkaloids: Biosynthesis, catabolism, function and genetic engineering

(2007) Hiroshi Ashihara et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY