Affiliation:
1. Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Berlin, Germany
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Mg
2+
and K
+
are the prevalent di- and monovalent cations inside the cells in all three domains, playing a dominant role in structure and function of biological macromolecules. Ribosomes bind a substantial fraction of total Mg
2+
and K
+
cations. In this issue of the
Journal of Bacteriology
, Akanuma and coworkers (G. Akanuma et al., J. Bacteriol. 196:3820–3830, 2014, doi:
10.1128/JB.01896-14
) report a surprising genetic link between ribosome amounts per cell and the intracellular Mg
2+
concentrations.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
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