Cyclic nucleotide monophosphates and their cyclases in plant signaling

C Gehring, IS Turek - Frontiers in plant science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The cyclic nucleotide monophosphates (cNMPs), and notably 3′, 5′-cyclic guanosine
monophosphate (cGMP) and 3′, 5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) are now …

Nucleotides and nucleotide derivatives as signal molecules in plants

CP Witte, M Herde - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In reaction to a stimulus, signaling molecules are made, generate a response, and are then
degraded. Nucleotides are classically associated with central metabolism and nucleic acid …

Tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase-dependent and-independent regulation of root development and signaling by PSK LRR receptor kinases in Arabidopsis

C Kaufmann, N Stührwohldt… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tyrosine-sulfated peptides are key regulators of plant growth and development. The
disulfated pentapeptide phytosulfokine (PSK) mediates growth via leucine-rich repeat …

Functional crypto-adenylate cyclases operate in complex plant proteins

I Al-Younis, B Moosa, M Kwiatkowski… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Adenylyl cyclases (ACs) and their catalytic product cAMP are regulatory components of
many plant responses. Here, we show that an amino acid search motif based on annotated …

Moonlighting proteins shine new light on molecular signaling niches

I Turek, H Irving - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants as sessile organisms face daily environmental challenges and have developed
highly nuanced signaling systems to enable suitable growth, development, defense, or …

Conserved functional motifs and homology modeling to predict hidden moonlighting functional sites

A Wong, C Gehring, HR Irving - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Moonlighting functional centers within proteins can provide them with hitherto unrecognized
functions. Here, we review how hidden moonlighting functional centers, which we define as …

Teaching an Old Hormone New Tricks: Cytosolic Ca2+ Elevation Involvement in Plant Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction Cascades

Y Zhao, Z Qi, GA Berkowitz - Plant Physiology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Brassinosteroids (BR s) are hormones that control many aspects of plant growth and
development, acting at the cell level to promote division and expansion. BR regulation of …

Downstream targets of cyclic nucleotides in plants

B Świeżawska, M Duszyn, K Jaworski… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Efficient integration of various external and internal signals is required to maintain adaptive
cellular function. Numerous distinct signal transduction systems have evolved to allow cells …

The brassinosteroid receptor BRI 1 can generate cGMP enabling cGMP‐dependent downstream signaling

JI Wheeler, A Wong, C Marondedze, AJ Groen… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The brassinosteroid receptor brassinosteroid insensitive 1 (BRI 1) is a member of the
leucine‐rich repeat receptor‐like kinase family. The intracellular kinase domain of BRI 1 is …

[HTML][HTML] Twin cyclic mononucleotide cyclase and phosphodiesterase domain architecture as a common feature in complex plant proteins

M Kwiatkowski, A Wong, C Bi, C Gehring, K Jaworski - Plant Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The majority of proteins in both prokaryote and eukaryote proteomes consist of two or more
functional centers, which allows for intramolecular tuning of protein functions. Such …