Overview
- Special focus on “phytohormone transporters” and several chapters converging on the trafficking, regulation and structure-function of ABCB-type auxin transporters
- Devoted to the exciting plethora of plant ABC transporter substrates and highlights their tightly connected biological functions
- Emphasizes the role of ABC transporters in plant defense and the symbiosis between plant and microorganisms
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM, volume 22)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is devoted to the fascinating superfamily of plant ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and their variety of transported substrates. It highlights their exciting biological functions, covering aspects ranging from cellular detoxification, through development, to symbiosis and defense. Moreover, it also includes a number of chapters that center on ABC transporters from non-Arabidopsis species.
ABC proteins are ubiquitous, membrane-intrinsic transporters that catalyze the primary (ATP-dependent) movement of their substrates through biological membranes. Initially identified as an essential aspect of a vacuolar detoxification process, genetic work in the last decade has revealed an unexpectedly diverse variety of ABC transporter substrates, which include not only xenobiotic conjugates, but also heavy metals, lipids, terpenoids, lignols, alkaloids and organic acids.
The discovery that members of the ABCB and ABCG family are involved in the movement of phytohormones has further sparked their exploration and provided a new understanding of the whole family. Accordingly, the trafficking, regulation and structure-function of ABCB-type auxin transporters are especially emphasized in this book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant ABC Transporters
Editors: Markus Geisler
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06511-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06510-6Published: 24 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37893-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06511-3Published: 06 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Physiology, Protein Science, Plant Biochemistry, Protein-Ligand Interactions, Membrane Biology