Genomics of plant ABC transporters:: The alphabet of photosynthetic life forms or just holes in membranes?
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Schulz, B
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Purdue Univ, Dept Hort & Landscape Architecture, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USAPurdue Univ, Dept Hort & Landscape Architecture, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
Schulz, B
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Kolukisaglu, HÜ
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机构:Purdue Univ, Dept Hort & Landscape Architecture, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
Kolukisaglu, HÜ
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[1] Purdue Univ, Dept Hort & Landscape Architecture, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
ABC transporters;
functional genomics;
plant development;
protein superfamily;
transporter evolution;
D O I:
10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.002
中图分类号:
Q5 [生物化学];
Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号:
071010 ;
081704 ;
摘要:
The large number of ABC transporters in the Arabidopsis genome was made responsible for known as well as unexpected aspects in plant development. The combination of classical transport experiments with functional genomics approaches helped unravel some of these effects. Yet questions concerning the importance of this large number of ABC transporters in eukaryotic photosynthesizing organisms remain open. Phylogenomic analyses of whole genome sequence data reveal comparable sizes and composition between algae and higher plants within this protein family. Although this indicates the significance of ABC transporters in plants, several other questions remain to be answered. (c) 2006 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.