Plant hormone transporters: what we know and what we would like to know

Park, Jiyoung; Lee, Youngsook; Martinoia, Enrico; Geisler, Markus

doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0443-x

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Plant hormone transporters: what we know and what we would like to know

Park, Jiyoung Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Lee, Youngsook Division of Integrative Bioscience and Biotechnology, Pohang, South Korea
Martinoia, Enrico Institute for Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Geisler, Markus Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

25.10.2017

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BMC Biology. - 2017, vol. 15, p. 93

English Hormone transporters are crucial for plant hormone action, which is underlined by severe developmental and physiological impacts caused by their loss-of-function mutations. Here, we summarize recent knowledge on the individual roles of plant hormone transporters in local and long-distance transport. Our inventory reveals that many hormones are transported by members of distinct transporter classes, with an apparent dominance of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family and of the Nitrate transport1/Peptide transporter family (NPF). The current need to explore further hormone transporter regulation, their functional interaction, transport directionalities, and substrate specificities is briefly reviewed.

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Faculté des sciences et de médecine

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Département de Biologie

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