Covarrubias, A.A., Cuevas-Velazquez, C.L., Romero-Pérez, P.S. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Structural disorder in plant proteins : where plasticity meets sessility. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 74 (17). pp. 3119-3147. ISSN 1420-682X
Abstract
Plants are sessile organisms. This intriguing nature provokes the question of how they survive despite the continual perturbations caused by their constantly changing environment. The large amount of knowledge accumulated to date demonstrates the fascinating dynamic and plastic mechanisms, which underpin the diverse strategies selected in plants in response to the fluctuating environment. This phenotypic plasticity requires an efficient integration of external cues to their growth and developmental programs that can only be achieved through the dynamic and interactive coordination of various signaling networks. Given the versatility of intrinsic structural disorder within proteins, this feature appears as one of the leading characters of such complex functional circuits, critical for plant adaptation and survival in their wild habitats. In this review, we present information of those intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from plants for which their high level of predicted structural disorder has been correlated with a particular function, or where there is experimental evidence linking this structural feature with its protein function. Using examples of plant IDPs involved in the control of cell cycle, metabolism, hormonal signaling and regulation of gene expression, development and responses to stress, we demonstrate the critical importance of IDPs throughout the life of the plant.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Springer International Publishing. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Intrinsically disordered proteins; Plant development; Plant metabolism; Plant stress responses; Plant signaling; LEA proteins; Transcription factors |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) > Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie 70086 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2019 14:34 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2019 10:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s00018-017-2557-2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152165 |