MAP kinase pathways: molecular plug-and-play chips for the cell.

I Meskiene; H Hirt

doi:10.1023/a:1006405929082

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MAP kinase pathways: molecular plug-and-play chips for the cell.

I Meskiene·H Hirt

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Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways transduce a large variety of external signals in mammals, unicellular eukaryotes, and plants. In recent years, plant MAPK pathways have attracted increasing interest resulting in the isolation of a large number of different components. Studies on the function of these components have revealed that MAPKs play important roles in the response to a broad variety of stresses, but also in the signaling of plant hormones and the cell cycle. Besides giving an update on recent results, the success and logic of MAPK-based signal transduction cascades is discussed.

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I Meskiene, H Hirt. 2000. MAP kinase pathways: molecular plug-and-play chips for the cell.. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1006405929082

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