N-terminal cysteines affect oligomer stability of the allosterically regulated ammonium transporter LeAMT1;1

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1361-1373

  Graff, Lucile ^a   Obrdlik, Petr ^b,f   Yuan, Lixing ^c   Loqué, Dominique ^d   Frommer, Wolf B ^d   Von Wirén, Nicolaus ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b IonGate Biosciences GmbH   (Germany)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^f JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium uptake; cysteine bridges; oligomerization; protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM TRANSPORTERS, PLANT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; TOMATO; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 79551697719     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq379     Document Type: Article

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