How plants sense ethylene gas - The ethylene receptors.

We present a model where a copper cofactor is required and the binding of ethylene causes the receptor to pass through a transition state to become non-signaling leading to lower CTR1 activity.
PMID: 24485009 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry - January 21, 2014 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Lacey RF, Binder BM Tags: J Inorg Biochem Source Type: research