The ethylene-receptor family from Arabidopsis: Structure and function

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1374, 1998, Pages 1405-1412

  Bleecker, Anthony B ^a   Esch, Jeffrey J ^a   Hall, Anne E ^a   Rodríguez, Fernando I ^a   Binder, Brad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Plant hormone; Receptor; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE RECEPTOR; HISTIDINE KINASE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032578508     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0295     Document Type: Article

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