Annexins: Multifunctional components of growth and adaptation

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 533-544

  Mortimer, Jennifer C ^a   Laohavisit, Anuphon ^a   Macpherson, Neil ^a   Webb, Alex ^a   Brownlee, Colin ^b   Battey, Nicholas H ^c   Davies, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annexin; Calcium; Channel; GTP; Peroxide; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANNEXIN; CALCIUM; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ION CHANNEL; PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EXOCYTOSIS; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANNEXINS; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; EXOCYTOSIS; GRAVITROPISM; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; ION CHANNELS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEROXIDASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 43149118110     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erm344     Document Type: Review

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