A copper cofactor for the ethylene receptor ETR1 from Arabidopsis

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5404, 1999, Pages 996-998

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION; ETHYLENE; HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CYANOBACTERIUM; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COPPER; COPPER SULFATE; CYANOBACTERIA; DIMERIZATION; ETHYLENES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILVER;

EID: 0033548143     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5404.996     Document Type: Article

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