Protein SUMOylation and plant abiotic stress signaling: In silico case study of rice RLKs, heat-shock and Ca2+-binding proteins

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1053-1065

  Raorane, Manish L ^a   Mutte, Sumanth K ^a   Varadarajan, Adithi R ^a   Pabuayon, Isaiah M ^a   Kohli, Ajay ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Drought; Heat shock; Post translational modification; Protein; Signaling; SUMO; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DROUGHT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RICE; SUMOYLATION;

CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DROUGHTS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SUMOYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84879002623     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-013-1452-z     Document Type: Review

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