title: MAP kinase pathways: molecular plug-and-play chips for the cell.
abstract: Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways transduce a large variety of external signals in mammals, unicellular eukaryotes, and plants. In recent years, plant MAPK pathways have attracted increasing interest resulting in the isolation of a large number of different components. Studies on the function of these components have revealed that MAPKs play important roles in the response to a broad variety of stresses, but also in the signaling of plant hormones and the cell cycle. Besides giving an update on recent results, the success and logic of MAPK-based signal transduction cascades is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna Biocenter, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Meskiene
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirt
mesh_terms: D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D020935:MAP Kinase Signaling System / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D059828:Plant Cells; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction