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Ion Currents Associated with Membrane Receptors

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The coordination of cellular physiology, organ development, life cycle phases and symbiotic interaction, as well as the triggering of a response to changes is the environment, in plants depends on the exchange of molecules that function as messengers. Binding of these messenger molecules to receptor proteins, is transduced through a network of second messengers into a response. Electrophysiological processes, like ion channel activation, regulation of ion pumps and membrane potential changes, have been shown to be involved in signal perception, transduction and in the cellular response. Examples are the perception and response to pathogen invasion, the signal exchange between plants and microbial symbionts, the systemic response to herbivore attack and the interaction between pollen tube and pistil tissue. In this chapter an overview of the coupling between ligands binding to a receptor protein and subsequent ion flux changes is given.

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Elzenga, J.T.M. (2012). Ion Currents Associated with Membrane Receptors. In: Volkov, A. (eds) Plant Electrophysiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29110-4_13

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