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Identification of Post-translational Modifications of Plant Protein Complexes
Published on: February 22, 2014
Phosphorelay signal transduction: the emerging family of plant response regulators
1Dept of Biological Sciences, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
Abstract:
Homologs of bacterial two-component signal transduction elements are emerging as key players in eukaryotic signaling systems. The recent identification of a large gene family in Arabidopsis that is similar to two-component response regulators emphasizes the importance of this signaling mechanism in plants. The understanding of the function of these response regulator genes is only rudimentary but the transcriptional induction of a subset by cytokinin suggests a role for some of these regulators in the response to this important plant hormone.
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