Multiple nutrient transporters enable cells to mitigate a rate-affinity tradeoff.

Eukaryotic genomes often encode multiple transporters for the same nutrient. For example, budding yeast has 17 hexose transporters (HXTs), all of which potentially transport glucose. Using mathematical modelling, we show that transporters that use either facilitated diffusion or symport can have a r...

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Main Authors: Luis Fernando Montaño-Gutierrez, Kevin Correia, Peter S Swain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010060