Kinetin—A multiactive molecule
| Autor: | Frank Massino, Jan Barciszewski, Brian F.C. Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Cell division
Zeatin Biochemistry chemistry.chemical_compound Tissue culture Plant Growth Regulators Structural Biology Tobacco Humans Molecular Biology biology fungi food and beverages Cell Differentiation General Medicine Kinetin biology.organism_classification Plant cell chemistry Callus Plant hormone Signal transduction Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 40:182-192 |
| ISSN: | 0141-8130 |
| Popis: | Cytokinins are important adenine derivatives that serve as hormones to control many processes in plants. They were discovered as factors that promote cell division in tobacco tissue cultures and have been shown also to regulate several other developmental events. Kinetin which was isolated 50 years ago for the first time as a plant hormone, as well as other cytokinins isopentenyladenine, zeatin and benzylaminopurine induce callus (clusters of dedifferentiated plant cells) to redifferentiate into adventitious buds. Because of some similarities in the biological phenotypes of cancer and callus cells, cytokinins and especially kinetin, affect the differentiation of human cells through a common signal transduction system. Therefore, cytokinins found their way to use in molecular medicine. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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