作者: Zhiyong Gao , G. Eric Schaller
关键词: Ethylene signal transduction 、 Receptor 、 Order (biology) 、 Chemoreceptor 、 Biology 、 Biochemistry 、 Mechanism (biology) 、 Ethylene 、 Cooperativity 、 Arabidopsis 、 Cell biology
摘要: The phytohormone ethylene is perceived in Arabidopsis by a five-member receptor family. Earlier work has demonstrated that the basic functional unit for an disulfide-linked homodimer. We recently reported Journal of Biological Chemistry ethylene-receptor ETR1 physically associates with other receptors through higher order interactions, suggesting existence clusters. Here we consider implications such clusters upon mechanism signal transduction. In particular, how clustering provides cooperative mechanism, akin to what been found prokaryotic chemoreceptors, which plant sensitivity may be increased. addition, dominant insensitivity conferred some mutations, as etr1-1, also propagated interactions among members