Feedback inhibition by thiols outranks glutathione depletion: A luciferase-based screen reveals glutathione-deficient γ-ECS and glutathione synthetase mutants impaired in cadmium-induced sulfate assimilation

Plant Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 783-795

  Jobe, Timothy O ^a   Sung, Dong Yul ^a   Akmakjian, Garo ^a   Pham, Allis ^a   Komives, Elizabeth A ^b   Mendoza Cózatl, David G ^a,c   Schroeder, Julian I ^a  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; glutathione biosynthesis; heavy metal; metabolite based cloning; phytochelatins; glutamylcysteine synthetase

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; DETOXIFICATION; HEAVY METALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; GLUTATHIONE BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLITE-BASED CLONINGS; PHYTOCHELATINS; SYNTHETASES;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84861528630     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04924.x     Document Type: Article

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