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Signal Sensing and Signal Transduction Across the Plasma Membrane

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The Plant Plasma Membrane

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This topic is so broad that we have had to severely constrain what is included if the chapter is not to become imponderably large. The plasma membrane, the outer skin of the cell, delimits the boundary between the highly organized and enzyme-rich cytosol and the enzyme-poor and less organized cell wall; any molecular traffic, in or out of the cell must cross the plasma membrane. This traffic may be sensed at the plasma membrane and converted to an entirely new set of information, or it may be modified in transit, or it may pass unhindered. The latter traffic is small and not considered here. Discussion is limited to what is termed signal sensing and stimulus-response coupling although both are difficult to define exactly. Ion flux phenomena in general are not considered here (see Chap. 8) although such fluxes are clearly important information conveyed to the plant cell across the plasma membrane. Signalling by the cell to the cell wall is a relevant phenomenon to cell development and an example of information conveyed from inside to outside. But it has been excluded for reasons of space and is dealt with elsewhere (Chaps. 11, 14, and 15).

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Abbreviations

ABA:

abscisic acid

DAG:

diacylglycerol

IP3 :

inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate

Pfr :

active phytochrome

Pr :

inactive phytochrome

PI:

phosphatidylinositol

PIP:

phosphatidylinosi- tol-4-phosphate

PIP:

phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate

SH:

sulfhydryl group

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