The expansin superfamily
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Genome Biology
- Vol. 6 (12), 242
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-12-242
Abstract
Expansins are plant proteins that loosen cell walls via a nonenzymatic mechanism; they are involved in cell expansion and other developmental events during which cell-wall modification occurs.Keywords
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