Molecular evolution of slow and quick anion channels (SLACs and QUACs/ALMTs)

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Dreyer, Ingo ^a   Gomez Porras, Judith Lucia ^a   Riaño Pachón, Diego Mauricio ^b   Hedrich, Rainer ^c   Geiger, Dietmar ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALMT; Anion channel; Evolution; Phosphorylation; QUAC; SLAC SLAH; Topology; Voltage dependent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876687775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00263     Document Type: Article

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