Plant nuclear hormone receptors: A role for small molecules in protein-protein interactions

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2010, Pages 445-469

  Lumba, Shelley ^a   Cutler, Sean ^b   McCourt, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

abscisic acid; auxin; gibberellins; jasmonate

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; AUXIN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; F BOX PROTEIN; GIBBERELLIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; JASMONIC ACID; NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL RECEPTOR; PHYTOHORMONE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT;

ANIMALIA;

PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

EID: 78049257977     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100109-103956     Document Type: Review

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