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In the wild and in the laboratory, yeast are exposed to stresses such as hypo-osmotic or hyperosmotic conditions, toxic cations, heat shock and cell-cycle disruptive reagents.
The predicted topological organization consists of six transmembrane domains with a hydrophobic loop between the fifth and sixth domain which lines the ion conducting pore [ 17 ] . VR1 has been expressed heterologously in several cell lines and has intrinsic sensitivity to thermal stimuli and to capsaicin (a pungent extract of the Capsicum pepper family) [ 18 ] . VR1 does not discriminate among monovalent cations [ 19 ] ; however, it exhibits a notable preference for divalent cations with a permeability sequence of Ca 2+> Mg 2+> Na +≈ K +≈ Cs + [ 9 ] . Ca 2+is especially important to VR1 function, as extracellular Ca 2+mediates desensitization [ 20 21 ] , a process which enables a neuron to adapt to specific stimuli by diminishing its overall response to a particular chemical or physical signal.
The metal cations direct a 5' nucleoside triphosphate to form a phosphoester bond with the 3' hydroxyl of the preceding nucleotide (the 3'-terminal nucleotide of a growing polynucleotide chain), with the elimination of pyrophosphate [ 6 ] .
Finally inclusion of EDTA in the reaction mixture inhibited the binding reaction suggesting that the divalent cations are essential for this binding activity.
The catalytic activity of CD39 is dependent on the presence of divalent cations.