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Auxin: Shape matters

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Auxin binds to its receptor within a ubiquitin ligase complex and promotes the binding and degradation of transcriptional repressors. The discovery of a cyclophilin isomerase enzyme critical in this process adds a new twist to auxin signalling.

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Figure 1: The LRT2 cyclophilin contributes to auxin perception.

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  1. Shih-Heng Su and Patrick H. Masson are at the Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 425G Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.,

    Shih-Heng Su & Patrick H. Masson

  2. William M. Gray is at the Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 250 Biological Sciences Center, 1445 Gortner Avenue, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.,

    William M. Gray

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Su, SH., Gray, W. & Masson, P. Auxin: Shape matters. Nature Plants 1, 15097 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.97

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