Plant ABC Transporters

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geisler, Markus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Signaling and Communication in Plants, 22
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteins.; Cell membranes.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Protein Science.; Plant Biochemistry.; Protein-Ligand Interactions.; Membrane Biology.

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. ...

Table of Contents:

• ABC Transporters and Heavy Metals
• Phytate Transport by MRPs
• ABA Transport by ABCG Transporter Proteins
• Exine Export in Pollen
• Transport of Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus
• Plant Peroxisomal ABC Transporters: Flexible and Unusual
• Plastidic ABC Proteins
• ABCG Transporters and Their Role in the Biotic Stress Response
• Defence, Symbiosis and ABCG Transporters
• ABC Proteins and Other Transporters in Lotus japonicus and Glycine max
• Monocot ABC Transporters
• Structure-function of Plant ABC-transporters
• It Takes More Than Two to Tango: Regulation of Plant ABC Transporters
• Evolution of transport directionality in ABCBs
• Trafficking of ABCB-type Auxin Transporters
• Function of ABCBs in Light Signaling
• IBA Transport by PDR Proteins.