A protein farnesyl transferase involved in abscisic acid signal transduction in Arabidopsis

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Cutler, S [1 ]
Ghassemian, M [1 ]
Bonetta, D [1 ]
Cooney, S [1 ]
McCourt, P [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TORONTO, DEPT BOT, TORONTO, ON M5S 3B2, CANADA
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10.1126/science.273.5279.1239
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) modulates a variety of developmental processes and responses to environmental stress in higher plants. A collection of mutations, designated era, in Arabidopsis thaliana that confer an enhanced response to exogenous ABA includes mutations in the Era1 gene, which encodes the beta subunit of a protein farnesyl transferase. In yeast and mammalian systems, farnesyl transferases modify several signal transduction proteins for membrane localization. The era1 mutants suggest that a negative regulator of ABA sensitivity must be acted on by a farnesyl transferase to function.
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