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Oxygen Signal Transduction
Author(s) -
GillesGonzalez MarieAlda
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
iubmb life
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.132
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1521-6551
pISSN - 1521-6543
DOI - 10.1080/152165401753544232
Subject(s) - signal transduction , oxygen , microbiology and biotechnology , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry
Although manifestations of O 2 adaptation have long been examined, only now are biochemical mechanisms of O 2 regulation beginning to be understood. This article comments on the current state of knowledge about proteins that function as direct sensors of molecular oxygen and makes predictions about as yet undiscovered sensors.