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Structural disorder in plant proteins: where plasticity meets sessility.
Covarrubias, Alejandra A; Cuevas-Velazquez, Cesar L; Romero-Pérez, Paulette S; Rendón-Luna, David F; Chater, Caspar C C.
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  • Covarrubias AA; Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico. crobles@ibt.unam.mx.
  • Cuevas-Velazquez CL; Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  • Romero-Pérez PS; Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  • Rendón-Luna DF; Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  • Chater CCC; Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62250, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Cell Mol Life Sci ; 74(17): 3119-3147, 2017 09.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28643166
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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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Plant Proteins / Plants / Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Type of study: Prognostic_studies Language: En Journal: Cell Mol Life Sci Journal subject: BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Year: 2017 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Mexico Country of publication: Switzerland

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Plant Proteins / Plants / Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Type of study: Prognostic_studies Language: En Journal: Cell Mol Life Sci Journal subject: BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Year: 2017 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Mexico Country of publication: Switzerland