Salt stress leads to massive accumulation of toxic levels of Na(+) and Cl(-) ions in plants. By using the recombinant fluorescent probe CLOMELEON, we demonstrate passive anion flux under salt stress. Chloride influx is restricted in the presence of divalent cations like Mg(2+) and Ca(2+), and completely blocked by La(3+). The amount but not the rate of the reported chloride uptake is independent from the kind of corresponding permeable cation (K(+) versus Na(+)), external pH and magnitude of osmotic stress. Cl(-) efflux however seems to involve stretch-activated transport. From the influence of Ca(2+) on reported changes of cytosolic anion concentrations, we speculate that transport mechanisms of Cl(-) and Na(+) might be thermodynamically coupled under saline conditions.
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