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Poikilothermic organisms such as yeast, bacteria, plants and fish, respond to a decrease in temperature with the expression of a specific subset of proteins. Recently, two-component signal transducers consisting of histidine kinases and response regulators, as components of the pathway for perception and transduction of low-temperature signals, were identified in cyanobacteria (Suzuki et al., 2000) and bacilli (Aguilar et al., 2001). However, in eukaryotes, low-temperature signal sensors as well as low-temperature signal transducers have not yet been identified.
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Nakagawa, Y., Kaneko, Y., Harashima, S. (2003). Low-Temperature and Hypoxic Signals Regulating Δ9 Fatty Acid Desaturase Gene Transcription are Converted into Membrane Fluidity Signal in Yeast. In: Murata, N., Yamada, M., Nishida, I., Okuyama, H., Sekiya, J., Hajime, W. (eds) Advanced Research on Plant Lipids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0159-4_26
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