Carbonic anhydrase
- Assessing intracellular pH regulation in H+-ATPase-rich ionocytes in zebrafish larvae using in vivo ratiometric imaging
Summary: Intracellular pH measurements in vivo in ion-transporting cells of zebrafish larvae reveal the roles of ion-transport-related proteins in intracellular acid–base regulation.
- Ammonia excretion and acid–base regulation in the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus
Summary: First insight into a marine chelicerate's ammonia and acid-base regulatory strategies as assessed via changes in mRNA expression levels and physiological responses to elevated ambient ammonia and CO2.
- Novel and potential physiological roles of vacuolar-type H+-ATPase in marine organisms
Summary: Recently discovered physiological roles of the vacuolar-type H+-ATPase include base secretion in shark gills, bone dissolution by Osedax worms and a carbon-concentrating mechanism in corals.
- An animal homolog of plant Mep/Amt transporters promotes ammonia excretion by the anal papillae of the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti
Summary: An animal homolog of plant and bacterial ammonium transporters supports ammonia excretion at the anal papillae of mosquito larvae.
- Fluid absorption in the isolated midgut of adult female yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti)
Summary: Fluid absorption in the isolated midgut of adult female yellow fever mosquitoes is shown to spontaneously proceed at rates expected from in vivo urine excretion, and Na+/K+ pumps, V-type H+ pumps and carbonic anhydrase are shown to be important for the active component of fluid absorption.
- Ammonia excretion in Caenorhabditis elegans: mechanism and evidence of ammonia transport of the Rhesus protein CeRhr-1
Highlighted Article: Hypodermal ammonia excretion in the soil nematode C. elegans involves Na+/K+-ATPase, V-ATPase, carbonic anhydrase, the microtuble network and a functional Rh protein.