A receptor-like kinase, related to cell wall sensor of higher plants, is required for sexual reproduction in the unicellular charophycean alga, Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1456-1462

  Hirano, Naoko ^a   Marukawa, Yuka ^a   Abe, Jun ^a   Hashiba, Sayuri ^a   Ichikawa, Machiko ^a   Tanabe, Yoichi ^b   Ito, Motomi ^b   Nishii, Ichiro ^c   Tsuchikane, Yuki ^a   Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Charophycean alga; Closterium peracerosum strigosum littorale complex; CrRLK1L 1; Receptor like kinase; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTERIUM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTERIUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84942096636     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv065     Document Type: Article

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