Starling A P, Ross I S
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Keele, Staffordshire, Great Britain.
Microbios. 1990;63(255):93-100.
Intact mycelium and protoplasts of Penicillium notatum were shown to take up manganese ions by an energy-dependent, high affinity uptake mechanism. Uptake was not inhibited by a range of divalent metal ions including Mg2+, indicating that manganese uptake by this process was specific.