Disordered plant LEA proteins as molecular chaperones

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 710-713

  Kovacs, Denes ^a   Agoston, Bianka ^a   Tompa, Peter ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENZYMOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Chaperone; Dehydration stress; Disordered protein; Late embryogenesis abundant protein; Stress tolerance; Unstructured protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949128448     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.9.6434     Document Type: Article

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