Glutamine metabolism, sensing and signaling in plants

KT Lee, HS Liao, MH Hsieh - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Glutamine (Gln) is the first amino acid synthesized in nitrogen (N) assimilation in plants. Gln
synthetase (GS), converting glutamate (Glu) and NH4+ into Gln at the expense of ATP, is …

From Feasting to Fasting: The Arginine Pathway as a Metabolic Switch in Nitrogen-Deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

LFR Monteiro, LA Giraldi, FV Winck - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The metabolism of the model microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under nitrogen
deprivation is of special interest due to its resulting increment of triacylglycerols (TAGs), that …

Evolution and diversification of the ACT-like domain associated with plant basic helix–loop–helix transcription factors

YS Lee, SH Shiu, E Grotewold - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - pnas.org
Basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) proteins are one of the largest families of transcription factor
(TF) in eukaryotes, and~ 30% of all flowering plants' bHLH TFs contain the aspartate kinase …

Arabidopsis ACT DOMAIN REPEAT9 represses glucose signaling pathways

HS Liao, YJ Chen, WY Hsieh, YC Li… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nutrient sensing and signaling are critical for plants to coordinate growth and development
in response to nutrient availability. Plant ACT DOMAIN REPEAT (ACR) proteins have been …

The activation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alpha amylase 2 by glutamine requires its N‐terminal aspartate kinase–chorismate mutase–tyrA (ACT) domain

L Scholtysek, A Poetsch, E Hofmann… - Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The coordination of assimilation pathways for all the elements that make up cellular
components is a vital task for every organism. Integrating the assimilation and use of carbon …

The activation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alpha amylase 2 by glutamine requires its N-terminal ACT domain

L Scholtysek, A Poetsch, E Hofmann, A Hemschemeier - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The coordination of assimilation pathways for all the elements that make up cellular
components is a vital task for every organism. Integrating the assimilation and use of carbon …

Nucleotide limitation results in impaired photosynthesis, reduced growth and seed yield together with massively altered gene expression

L Bellin, M Melzer, A Hilo… - Plant and Cell …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nucleotide limitation and imbalance is a well-described phenomenon in animal research but
understudied in the plant field. A peculiarity of pyrimidine de novo synthesis in plants is the …