Publication Date:
1998-06-25
Description:
Excessive sodium (Na+) in salinized soils inhibits plant growth and development. A mutation in the SOS3 gene renders Arabidopsis thaliana plants hypersensitive to Na+-induced growth inhibition. SOS3 encodes a protein that shares significant sequence similarity with the calcineurin B subunit from yeast and neuronal calcium sensors from animals. The results suggest that intracellular calcium signaling through a calcineurin-like pathway mediates the beneficial effect of calcium on plant salt tolerance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, J -- Zhu, J K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 19;280(5371):1943-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9632394" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Arabidopsis/*genetics/*growth & development/metabolism
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*Arabidopsis Proteins
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Binding Sites
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Calcineurin/chemistry
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Calcium/*metabolism/pharmacology
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Calcium-Binding Proteins/chemistry
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Chromosome Mapping
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Cloning, Molecular
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Genes, Plant
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Ion Transport
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Open Reading Frames
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Plant Proteins/*chemistry/*genetics
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry
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Signal Transduction
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Sodium/metabolism/*pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
