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David G. Mendoza-Cózatl
Associate Professor, Plant Sciences
Phone: 573-882-1892
mendozad@missouri.edu
Office: 271f Bond Life Sciences Center | Lab: 302 Bond LIfe Sciences Center
David Mendoza is an assistant professor of plant sciences and a member of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG). He studies the molecular and biochemical mechanisms by which plants resist and accumulate heavy metals. Plants and seeds are the main source of essential metals – zinc, iron, magnesium and copper – and also the main entry point into the food chain for toxic elements such as cadmium, lead, arsenic and mercury. Mendoza is working to identify and characterize the transporters responsible for the long-distance movement in plants of heavy metals, both the essential and the toxic. Understanding these mechanisms will help to enhance the nutritional value and safety of plant based products. This knowledge could also be useful for improving current techniques for phytoremediation, which is the use of plants to clean up toxic compounds, particularly at sites contaminated with heavy metals.
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May 17, 2021
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Research Topics
- Arsenic
- Bioremediation
- Cancer
- Copper
- Glucosinolates
- Glutathione (GSH)
- Hypertension
- Iron
- Lead (Pb)
- Manganese
- Mercury
- Modeling
- Myocardialfarction
- Phytochelatins
- Plant
- Redox
- Systems Biology
- Toxic Metals
- Trace Metals
- Transport
- Xenobiotics
- Zinc
2023
Editorial overview: Not everyone can become a cell biologist, but a great cell biologist can come from anywhere. Mendoza-Cozatl D G. Current Opinion in Plant Biology; Volume 73.
Date published: March 31, 2023Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Vegetative buffer strips show limited effectiveness for reducing antibiotic transport in surface runoff. Moody A H, Lerch R N, Goyne K W, Anderson S H, Mendoza D G, Alvarez D A. Journal of Environmental Quality; Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 137 - 148.
Date published: January 1, 2023Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2022
Class I TCP transcription factor AtTCP8 modulates key brassinosteroid-responsive genes. Spears B J, McInturf Sam A, Collins C, Chlebowski M, Cseke L J, Su J, Mendoza-Cozatl D G, Gassmann W. Plant Physiology; Volume 190, Issue 2, Pages 1457 - 1473.
Date published: October 1, 2022Featured in this article: Leland Cseke, Jianbin Su, David Mendoza-Cózatl, Walter Gassmann.
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Iron Availability within the Leaf Vasculature Determines the Magnitude of Iron Deficiency Responses in Source and Sink Tissues in Arabidopsis. Nguyen, Nga T. ;Khan, Mather A. ;Castro-Guerrero, Norma A. ;Chia, Ju-Chenb;Vatamaniuk, Olena K.b;Mari, Stephanec;Jurisson, Silvia S. ;Mendoza-Cozatl, David G. Plant & cell physiology; Volume 63, Issue 6, Pages 829 - 841.
Date published: June 15, 2022Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Root-to-shoot iron partitioning in Arabidopsis requires IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER1 (IRT1) protein but not its iron(II) transport function. Quintana J., Bernal M., Scholle M., Holländer-Czytko H., Nguyen N.T., Piotrowski M., Mendoza-Cózatl D.G., Haydon M.J., Krämer U.. Plant Journal; Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 992 - 1013.
Date published: February 1, 2022Featured in this article: Nguyen Thao Thi, David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2021
Cross species multi-omics reveals cell wall sequestration and elevated global transcript abundance as mechanisms of boron tolerance in plants. Wang G, DiTusa SF, Oh D-H, Herrmann AD, Mendoza-Cozatl DG, O'Neill MA, Smith AP, Dassanayake M. New Phytologist; 230(5):1985-2000.
Date published: June 1, 2021Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Putative Endophytic Bacterium Pantoea agglomerans R6, Associated with Lactuca serriola from South Africa. Istain B, Mokgokong PS, Wu R, Mia J, Gokul A, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Plessis MD, Keyster M. Microbiology Resource Announcements; 10(10):e00023-21.
Date published: March 11, 2021Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Exogenous 3,3′-diindolylmethane improves vanadium stress tolerance in brassica napus seedling shoots by modulating antioxidant enzyme activities. Gokul A, Fahiem Carelse M, Niekerk L-A, Klein A, Ludidi N, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Keyster M. Biomolecules; 11(3):1-18.
Date published: March 3, 2021Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Cross species multi-omics reveals cell wall sequestration and elevated global transcript abundance as mechanisms of boron tolerance in plants. Wang G, DiTusa SF, Oh D-H, Herrmann AD, Mendoza-Cozatl DG, O'Neill MA, Smith AP, Dassanayake M. New Phytologist; 230:1985-2000.
Date published: February 25, 2021Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2020
Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community. Parry G, Provart NJ, Brady SM, Uzilday B, Adams K, Araújo W, Aubourg S, Baginsky S, Bakker E, Bärenfaller K, Batley J, Beale M, Beilstein M, Belkhadir Y, Mendel G, Berardini T, Bergelson J, Blanco-Herrera F, Brady S, Braun H-P, Briggs S, Brownfield L, Cardarelli M, Castellanos-Uribe M, Coruzzi G, Dassanayake M, De Jaeger G, Dilkes B, Doherty C, Ecker J, Edger P, Edwards D, El Kasmi F, Eriksson M, Exposito-Alonso M, Falter-Braun P, Fernie A, Ferro M, Fiehn O, Friesner J, Greenham K, Guo Y, Hamann T, Hancock A, Hauser M-T, Heazlewood J, Ho C-H, Hõrak H, Huala E, Hwang I, Iuchi S, Jaiswal P, Jakobson L, Jiang Y, Jiao Y, Jones A, Kadota Y, Khurana J, Kliebenstein D, Knee E, Kobayashi M, Koch M, Krouk G, Larson T, Last R, Lepiniec L, Li S, Lurin C, Lysak M, Maere S, Malinowski R, Maumus F, May S, Mayer K, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Mendoza-Poudereux I, Micol JL, Millar H, Mock H-P, Mukhtar K, Mukhtar S, Murcha M, Nakagami H, Nakamura Y, Nicolov L, Nikolau B, Nowack M, Nunes-Nesi A, Palmgren M, Parry G, Patron N, Peck S, Pedmale U, Perrot-Rechenmann C, Pieruschka R, Pío-Beltrán J, Pires JC, Provart N, Rajjou L, Reiser L, Rhee S, Rigas S, Rolland N, Romanowski A, Savaldi-Goldstein S, Schmitz R, Schulze W, Seki M, Shimizu KK, Slotkin K, Small I, Somers D, Sozzani R, Spillane C, Srinivasan R, Taylor N, Tello-Ruiz M-K, Thelen J, Tohge T, Town C, Toyoda T, Uzilday B, Walley J, Ware D, Weckwerth W, Whitelegge J, Wienkoop S, Wright C, Wrzaczek M, Yamazaki M, Yanovsky M, Žárský V, Zhong X, Van De Peer Y, Van Wijk K, Von Gillhaussen P, The Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee. Plant Direct; 4(7):e00248.
Date published: July 1, 2020Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl, Scott Peck, , Jay Thelen.
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Mapping the metal-catalytic site of a zinc-activated phytochelatin synthase. García-García JD, Sánchez-Thomas R, Saavedra E, Fernández-Velasco DA, Romero-Romero S, Casanova-Figueroa KI, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Moreno-Sánchez R. Algal Research; 47:101890.
Date published: May 1, 2020Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Expression of a dominant-negative AtNEET-H89C protein disrupts iron–sulfur metabolism and iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Zandalinas SI, Song L, Sengupta S, McInturf SA, Grant DG, Marjault H-B, Castro-Guerrero NA, Burks D, Azad RK, Mendoza-Cozatl DG, Nechushtai R, Mittler R. Plant Journal; 101(5):1152-169.
Date published: March 1, 2020Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl, Ron Mittler.
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2019
Keep talking: Crosstalk between iron and sulfur networks fine-tunes growth and development to promote survival under iron limitation. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Gokul A, Carelse MF, Jobe TO, Long TA, Keyster M. Journal of Experimental Botany; 70(16):4197-4210.
Date published: August 19, 2019Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Copper uptake mechanism of Arabidopsis thaliana high-affinity COPT transporters. Sanz A, Pike S, Khan MA, Carrió-Seguí À, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Peñarrubia L, Gassmann W. Protoplasma; 256(1):161-170.
Date published: January 3, 2019Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl, Walter Gassmann.
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Zinc uptake in the Basidiomycota: Characterization of zinc transporters in Ustilago maydis. Martha-Paz AM, Eide D, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Castro-Guerrero NA, Aréchiga-Carvajal ET. Molecular Membrane Biology; 35(1):39-50.
Date published: January 1, 2019Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2018
Phosphate deficiency negatively affects early steps of the symbiosis between common bean and Rhizobia. Isidra-Arellano MC, Reyero-Saavedra MR, Sánchez-Correa MS, Pingault L, Sen S, Joshi T, Girard L, Castro-Guerrero NA, Mendoza-Cozatl DG, Libault M, Valdés-López O. Genes; 9(10):498.
Date published: October 15, 2018Featured in this article: Trupti Joshi, David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Changes in iron availability in Arabidopsis are rapidly sensed in the leaf vasculature and impaired sensing leads to opposite transcriptional programs in leaves and roots. Khan MA, Castro-Guerrero NA, McInturf SA, Nguyen NT, Dame AN, Wang J, Bindbeutel RK, Joshi T, Jurisson SS, Nusinow DA, Mendoza-Cozatl DG. Plant Cell and Enviroment; 41(10):2263-2276.
Date published: October 1, 2018Featured in this article: Trupti Joshi, David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2017
Quantitative proteomics analysis of leaves from two Sedum alfredii (Crassulaceae) populations that differ in cadmium accumulation. Zhang Z, Zhou H, Yu Q, Li Y, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Qiu B, Liu P, Chen Q. Proteomics; 17(10):1600456.
Date published: May 1, 2017Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Moderate to severe water limitation differentially affects the phenome and ionome of Arabidopsis. Acosta-Gamboa LM, Liu S, Langley E, Campbell Z, Castro-Guerrero N, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Lorence A. Functional Plant Biology; 44(1):94-106.
Date published: January 1, 2017Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2016
Hydroponics: A versatile system to study nutrient allocation and plant responses to nutrient availability and exposure to toxic elements. Nguyen NT, McInturf SA, Mendoza-Cózatl DG. Journal of Visualized Experiments; 2016(113):e54317.
Date published: July 13, 2016Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Enhanced cadmium efflux and root-to-shoot translocation are conserved in the hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii (Crassulaceae family). Zhang Z, Yu Q, Du H, Ai W, Yao X, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Qiu B. FEBS Letters; 1757-1764.
Date published: June 1, 2016Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Common bean: A legume model on the rise for unraveling responses and adaptations to iron, zinc, and phosphate deficiencies. Castro-Guerrero NA, Isidra-Arellano MC, Mendoza-Cozat DG, Valdés-López O. Frontiers in Plant Science; 7(May 2016):600.
Date published: May 3, 2016Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Identification of AtOPT4 as a Plant Glutathione Transporter. Zhang Z, Xie Q, Jobe TO, Kau AR, Wang C, Li Y, Qiu B, Wang Q, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Schroeder JI. Molecular Plant; 9(3):481-484.
Date published: March 7, 2016Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2014
OPT3 is a component of the iron-signaling network between leaves and roots and misregulation of OPT3 leads to an over-accumulation of cadmium in seeds. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Xie Q, Akmakjian GZ, Jobe TO, Patel A, Stacey MG, Song L, Demoin DW, Jurisson SS, Stacey G, Schroeder JI. Molecular Plant; 7(9):1455-1469.
Date published: September 1, 2014Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl, Minviluz (Bing) Stacey, Gary Stacey.
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Phytochelatin-metal(loid) transport into vacuoles shows different substrate preferences in barley and Arabidopsis. Song W-Y, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Lee Y, Schroeder JI, Ahn S-N, Lee H-S, Wicker T, Martinoia E. Plant, Cell and Environment; 37(5):1192-1201.
Date published: May 1, 2014Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Zn-bis-glutathionate is the best co-substrate of the monomeric phytochelatin synthase from the photosynthetic heavy metal-hyperaccumulator Euglena gracilis. García-García JD, Girard L, Hernández G, Saavedra E, Pardo JP, Rodríguez-Zavala JS, Encalada R, Reyes-Prieto A, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Moreno-Sánchez R. Metallomics; 6(3):604-616.
Date published: March 1, 2014Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Moving toward a precise nutrition: Preferential loading of seeds with essential nutrients over non-essential toxic elements. Khan MA, Castro-Guerrero N, Mendoza-Cozatl DG. Frontiers in Plant Science; 5(FEB):51.
Date published: February 20, 2014Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2013
Elemental Concentrations in the Seed of Mutants and Natural Variants of Arabidopsis thaliana Grown under Varying Soil Conditions. McDowell SC, Akmakjian G, Sladek C, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Morrissey JB, Saini N, Mittler R, Baxter I, Salt DE, Ward JM, Schroeder JI, Guerinot ML, Harper JF. PLoS ONE; 8(5):e63014.
Date published: May 6, 2013Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl, Ron Mittler.
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2012
Feedback inhibition by thiols outranks glutathione depletion: A luciferase-based screen reveals glutathione-deficient γ-ECS and glutathione synthetase mutants impaired in cadmium-induced sulfate assimilation. Jobe TO, Sung D-Y, Akmakjian G, Pham A, Komives EA, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Schroeder JI. Plant Journal; 70(5):783-795.
Date published: June 1, 2012Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2011
Long-distance transport, vacuolar sequestration, tolerance, and transcriptional responses induced by cadmium and arsenic. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Jobe TO, Hauser F, Schroeder JI. Current Opinion in Plant Biology; 14(5):554-562.
Date published: October 1, 2011Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2010
Tonoplast-localized Abc2 transporter mediates phytochelatin accumulation in vacuoles and confers cadmium tolerance. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Zhai Z, Jobe TO, Akmakjian GZ, Song W-Y, Limbo O, Russell MR, Kozlovskyy VI, Martinoia E, Vatamaniuk OK, Russell P, Schroeder JI. Journal of Biological Chemistry; 285(52):40416-40426.
Date published: December 24, 2010Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Arsenic tolerance in Arabidopsis is mediated by two ABCC-type phytochelatin transporters. Song W-Y, Park J, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Suter-Grotemeyer M, Shima D, Hörtensteiner S, Geisler M, Weder B, Rea PA, Rentsch D, Schroeder JI, Lee Y, Martinoia E. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 107(49):21187-21192.
Date published: December 7, 2010Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2009
ARS5 is a component of the 26S proteasome complex, and negatively regulates thiol biosynthesis and arsenic tolerance in Arabidopsis. Sung D-Y, Kim T-H, Komives EA, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Schroeder JI. Plant Journal; 59(5):802-813.
Date published: September 1, 2009Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Chromium uptake, retention and reduction in photosynthetic Euglena gracilis. García-García JD, Rodríguez-Zavala JS, Jasso-Chávez R, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Moreno-Sánchez R. Archives of Microbiology; 191(5):431-440.
Date published: May 1, 2009Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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The Pb-hyperaccumulator aquatic fern Salvinia minima Baker, responds to Pb2+ by increasing phytochelatins via changes in SmPCS expression and in phytochelatin synthase activity. Estrella-Gómez N, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Moreno-Sánchez R, González-Mendoza D, Zapata-Pérez O, Martínez-Hernández A, Santamaría JM. Aquatic Toxicology; 91(4):320-328.
Date published: March 9, 2009Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2008
Identification of high levels of phytochelatins, glutathione and cadmium in the phloem sap of Brassica napus. A role for thiol-peptides in the long-distance transport of cadmium and the effect of cadmium on iron translocation. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Butko E, Springer F, Torpey JW, Komives EA, Kehr J, Schroeder JI. Plant Journal; 54(2):249-259.
Date published: April 1, 2008Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Thiol peptides induction in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum (Banks ex König) in response to cadmium exposure. Alvarez-Legorreta T, Mendoza-Cozatl D, Moreno-Sanchez R, Gold-Bouchot G. Aquatic Toxicology; 86(1):12-19.
Date published: January 20, 2008Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2007
Cell wall composition affects Cd2+ accumulation and intracellular thiol peptides in marine red algae. García-Ríos V, Freile-Pelegrín Y, Robledo D, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Moreno-Sánchez R, Gold-Bouchot G. Aquatic Toxicology; 81(1):65-72.
Date published: February 15, 2007Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2006
Phytochelatin-cadmium-sulfide high-molecular-mass complexes of Euglena gracilis. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Rodríguez-Zavala JS, Rodríguez-Enríquez S, Mendoza-Hernandez G, Briones-Gallardo R, Moreno-Sánchez R. FEBS Journal; 273(24):5703-5713.
Date published: December 1, 2006Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Simultaneous Cd2+, Zn2+, and Pb2+ uptake and accumulation by photosynthetic Euglena gracilis. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Rangel-González E, Moreno-Sánchez R. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; 51(4):521-528.
Date published: November 1, 2006Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Control of glutathione and phytochelatin synthesis under cadmium stress. Pathway modeling for plants. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Moreno-Sánchez R. Journal of Theoretical Biology; 238(4):919-936.
Date published: February 21, 2006Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2005
Time-course development of the Cd2+ hyper-accumulating phenotype in Euglena gracilis. Avilés C, Torres-Márquez ME, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Moreno-Sánchez R. Archives of Microbiology; 184(2):83-92.
Date published: November 1, 2005Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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The bacterial-like lactate shuttle components from heterotrophic Euglena gracilis. Jasso-Chávez R, García-Cano I, Marín-Hernández A, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Rendón JL, Moreno-Sánchez R. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics; 1709(2):181-190.
Date published: September 5, 2005Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Sulfur assimilation and glutathione metabolism under cadmium stress in yeast, protists and plants. Mendoza-Cózatl D, Loza-Tavera H, Hernández-Navarro A, Moreno-Sánchez R. FEMS Microbiology Reviews; 29(4):653-671.
Date published: September 1, 2005Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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Cd 2+ transport and storage in the chloroplast of Euglena gracilis. Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Moreno-Sánchez R. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics; 1706(1-2):88-97.
Date published: January 7, 2005Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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2002
Cadmium accumulation in the chloroplast of Euglena gracilis. Mendoza-Cozatl D, Devars S, Loza-Tavera H, Moreno-Sánchez R. Physiologia Plantarum; 115(2):276-283.
Date published: June 7, 2002Featured in this article: David Mendoza-Cózatl.
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