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Phosphate permease

Phosphate permease is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Phosphate permease rather than just read about it. In short: Phosphate permeases are membrane transport proteins that facilitate the diffusion of phosphate into and out of a cell or organelle. Some of these families include: TC# 2.A.1.4 - Organophosphate:Pi Antiporter (OPA) Family, (i.e., Pho-84 of Neurospora crassa; TC# 2.A.1.9.2) TC# 2.A.20 - Inorganic Phosphate Transporter (PiT) Family TC# 2.A.47.2 - Phosphate porters of the Divalent Anion:Na+ Symporter (DASS) Family, incl…

Key takeaways

Phosphate permease belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Phosphate permease to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Phosphate permease from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Phosphate permeases are membrane transport proteins that facilitate the diffusion of phosphate into and out of a cell or organelle. Some of these families include:

TC# 2.A.1.4 - Organophosphate:Pi Antiporter (OPA) Family, (i.e., Pho-84 of Neurospora crassa; TC# 2.A.1.9.2) TC# 2.A.20 - Inorganic Phosphate Transporter (PiT) Family TC# 2.A.47.2 - Phosphate porters of the Divalent Anion:Na+ Symporter (DASS) Family, includes Pho87/90/91 TC# 2.A.58 - Phosphate:Na+ Symporter (PNaS) Family TC# 2.A.94 - Phosphate Permease (Pho1) Family

See also Major facilitator superfamily Ion transporter superfamily Phosphotransferase Inorganic phosphate permeases Transporter Classification Database

See also TC# 3.A.10 - H+, Na+-translocating Pyrophosphatase (M+-PPase) Family TC# 4.E.1 - Vacuolar (Acidocalcisome) Polyphosphate Polymerase (V-PPP) Family

Further reading EMBL-EBI, InterPro. "Phosphate permease (IPR004738) < InterPro < EMBL-EBI". www.ebi.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-03. "pho-4 - Phosphate-repressible phosphate permease pho-4 - Neurospora crassa (strain ATCC 24698 / 74-OR23-1A / CBS 708.71 / DSM 1257 / FGSC 987) - pho-4 gene & protein". www.uniprot.org. Retrieved 2016-03-03. Versaw, W. K. (1995-02-03). "A phosphate-repressible, high-affinity phosphate permease is encoded by the pho-5+ gene of Neurospora crassa". Gene 153 (1): 135–139. ISSN 0378-1119. PMID 7883177. Ramaiah, Madhuvanthi; Jain, Ajay; Baldwin, James C.; Karthikeyan, Athikkattuvalasu S.; Raghothama, Kashchandra G. (2011-09-01). "Characterization of the phosphate starvation-induced glycerol-3-phosphate permease gene family in Arabidopsis". Plant Physiology157 (1): 279–291. doi:10.1104/pp.111.178541. ISSN 1532-2548. PMC 3165876. PMID 21788361. Stakheev, A. A.; Khairulina, D. R.; Ryazantsev, D. Yu; Zavriev, S. K. (2013-03-22). "Phosphate permease gene as a marker for the species-specific identification of the toxigenic fungus Fusarium cerealis". Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry 39 (2): 153–160.doi:10.1134/S1068162013020131. ISSN 1068-1620.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Phosphate permease

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Phosphate permease claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Phosphate permease before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Phosphate permease ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Phosphate permease

In research: Phosphate permease appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Phosphate permease in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Phosphate permease is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Membrane protein stubs, Protein families, Solute carrier family, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Phosphate permease outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Phosphate permease in simple terms?

Phosphate permeases are membrane transport proteins that facilitate the diffusion of phosphate into and out of a cell or organelle. Some of these families include: TC# 2.A.1.4 - Organophosphate:Pi Antiporter (OPA) Family, (i.e., Pho-84 of Neurospora crassa; TC# 2.A.1.9.2) TC# 2.A.20 - Inorganic Pho…

Why does Phosphate permease matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Phosphate permease?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Phosphate permease.