Open AccessThe Nucleotides That Bind: Finding the Motif behind the Hypoxia Response
Author(s) -
Jennifer Lockhart
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.15.01013
Subject(s) - biology , nucleotide , motif (music) , oxidative phosphorylation , oxygen , hypoxia (environmental) , phosphorylation , biochemistry , adenosine triphosphate , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , acoustics
Plants need oxygen, but they don’t always get enough of it. Under waterlogging or other hypoxic conditions, oxygen is not available to act as an electron acceptor in the oxidative phosphorylation pathway. ATP production plummets, depriving the plant of the energy it needs to survive. Fortunately,
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