A plant cold-induced uncoupling protein

Maryse Laloi, Mathieu Klein, Jörg W. Riesmeier, Bernd Müller-Röber, Christophe Fleury, Frédéric Bouillaud and Daniel Ricquier
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Maryse Laloi: Max-Planck-Institut för Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie
Mathieu Klein: Max-Planck-Institut för Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie
Jörg W. Riesmeier: PlantTec Biotechnology GmbH R&D
Bernd Müller-Röber: Max-Planck-Institut för Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie
Christophe Fleury: Centre de Recherches sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Développement, CNRS
Frédéric Bouillaud: Centre de Recherches sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Développement, CNRS
Daniel Ricquier: Centre de Recherches sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Développement, CNRS

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6647, 135-136

Abstract: Abstract In mammals, body temperature can be raised by the action of uncoupling proteins (UCPs), which dissipate the proton electrochemical gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane to produce heat rather than synthesize ATP1. Any similar mechanism of thermogenesis in plants is not so well understood. We have now identifiedcomplementary DNA from potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) that encodes a plant uncoupling protein, named StUCP, which is induced by cold treatment and so may be involved in thermoregulation in plants.

Date: 1997
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