Use of recombinant aequorin to study calcium homeostasis and monitor calcium transients in response to heat and cold shock in cyanobacteria

Plant Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 161-175

  Torrecilla, Ignacio ^a   Leganés, Francisco ^a   Bonilla, Ildefonso ^a   Fernández Piñas, Francisca ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEQUORIN; CALCIUM; COLD SHOCK; GENETIC STRAIN; HEAT SHOCK; HOMEOSTASIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS TOLERANCE;

ANABAENA;

EID: 0034029005     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.1.161     Document Type: Article

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