Dehydrin
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Dehydrin (DHN) is a multi-family of proteins present in plants that is produced in response to cold and drought stress. DHNs are hydrophilic, reliably thermostable, and disordered. They are stress proteins with a high number of charged amino acids that belong to the Group II Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) family. DHNs are primarily found in the cytoplasm and nucleus but more recently, they have been found in other organelles, like mitochondria and chloroplasts. DHNs are characterized by the presence of Glycine and other polar amino acids. Many DHNs contain at least one copy of a consensus 15-amino acid sequence called the K-segment, . However, an inspection of a range of other reported dehydrin sequences shows that its conservation is not absolute.
Dehydrin (DHN) is a multi-family of proteins present in plants that is produced in response to cold and drought stress. DHNs are hydrophilic, reliably thermostable, and disordered. They are stress proteins with a high number of charged amino acids that belong to the Group II Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) family. DHNs are primarily found in the cytoplasm and nucleus but more recently, they have been found in other organelles, like mitochondria and chloroplasts. DHNs are characterized by the presence of Glycine and other polar amino acids. Many DHNs contain at least one copy of a consensus 15-amino acid sequence called the K-segment, . However, an inspection of a range of other reported dehydrin sequences shows that its conservation is not absolute. ==See also== Antifreeze protein C-Repeat Binding Factor ==References== ==External links== Family: Dehydrin (PF00257) Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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