Volume 23, No 11, Nov 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 11, November 2013: 1326-1329

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Structure reveals that BAK1 as a co-receptor recognizes the BRI1-bound brassinolide

Yadong Sun^1,*, Zhifu Han^1,*, Jiao Tang¹, Zehan Hu¹, Chengliang Chai¹, Bin Zhou¹ and Jijie Chai¹

¹Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China; School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Correspondence: Jijie Chai(chaijj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

In animals, steroid hormones play critical roles in many vital physiological processes. Brassinosteroids (BRs) produced by plants have similar structures to the animal steroid hormones and play indispensable roles in plant growth and development1. BRs have now acknowledgedly become a sixth class of plant hormones.

10.1038/cr.2013.131

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