Annual Plant Reviews, Intracellular Signaling in Plants

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ISBN: 9781405160025 | 1405160020
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/21/2008

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Dealing with major known signaling mechanisms and several representative intracellular signaling networks in plants and integrating comprehensive reviews and insights from leading experts in the field Intracellular Signalling in Plants will be a valuable resource for all reserchers and professionals in plant biochemistry and biology.

List of contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xvi
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Transmembrane Receptors in Plants: Receptor Kinases and Their Ligands	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Classifications of the RLK superfamily	p. 2
Redundancy and antagonism among closely related RLKs	p. 4
Ligands for RLKs	p. 7
Small peptides	p. 9
Cysteine-rich extracellular proteins	p. 12
Other possible ligands and their-corresponding receptors	p. 14
Ligand-receptor interactions	p. 15
Early events in receptor kinase signaling: dynamics of receptor activation	p. 17
Early events in receptor kinase signaling: emerging link to small GTP-binding proteins	p. 20
Future perspectives	p. 21
Heterotrimeric G-Protein-Coupled Signaling in Higher Plants	p. 30
Introduction	p. 31
Heterotrimeric G proteins in nonplant systems	p. 31
Heterotrimeric G proteins in higher plants	p. 34
Conclusions and future directions	p. 54
ROP/RAC GTPase	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
Structural conservation and diversification	p. 66
Physiological functions and downstream signaling	p. 67
Mechanisms for the regulation of the ROP GTPase "ON/OFF" status	p. 83
Potential upstream regulators of ROP signaling	p. 88
Future perspectives	p. 90
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Intracellular Signaling	p. 100
Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades are evolutionarily conserved signaling modules in eukaryotic cells	p. 100
History of plant MAPK research	p. 101
Plant MAPK cascades	p. 102
Negative regulation of plant MAPK cascades	p. 104
Important tools/techniques in MAPK research	p. 105
Biological functions of MAPK cascades in plants	p. 108
Signaling specificity of plant MAPK cascades	p. 124
Conclusion remarks	p. 126
Calcium Signals and Their Regulation	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Ca[superscript 2+] as a second messenger in plants: of signatures and switches	p. 138
Ca[superscript 2+] channels and pumps	p. 141
Decoding the Ca[superscript 2+] signal	p. 143
Ca[superscript 2+] and Nod-factor signaling: a role for kinases in decoding the Ca[superscript 2+] signal?	p. 144
Ca[superscript 2+] uptake and transport	p. 149
Sensing extracellular Ca[superscript 2+]	p. 150
Ca[superscript 2+], light, and circadian [Ca superscript 2+] oscillations	p. 151
Conclusions and perspectives	p. 153
Paradigms and Networks for Intracellular Calcium Signaling in Plant Cells	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
CDPKs, plant calcium "sensor responders"	p. 165
CaM: small calcium sensors with a variety of target proteins	p. 168
The CBL-CIPK network	p. 174
Perspectives: complex networks for Ca[superscript 2+] decoding in plant cells	p. 180
Reactive Oxygen Signaling in Plants	p. 189
Introduction to reactive oxygen metabolism	p. 189
ROS signaling and its modulation by the ROS gene network	p. 190
Subcellular localization and coordination of the ROS network	p. 194
Key components of the ROS gene network identified by reverse genetics	p. 195
The ROS signal transduction pathway of plants	p. 195
Summary	p. 196
Lipid-Mediated Signaling	p. 202
Introduction	p. 202
Plant-specific features of phosphoinositide signaling	p. 203
Phospholipase D signaling	p. 217
Sphingolipid signaling	p. 224
Summary	p. 232
The Cytoskeleton and Signal Transduction: Role and Regulation of Plant Actin- and Microtubule-Binding Proteins	p. 244
Actin cytoskeleton	p. 245
Actin nucleation	p. 245
Actin-binding proteins that modulate monomer/polymer dynamics	p. 249
Microtubule cytoskeleton	p. 253
ROP	p. 254
Protein phosphorylation	p. 255
Calcium	p. 261
Conclusion	p. 262
The PCI Complexes and the Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS) in Plant Development	p. 273
General overview	p. 273
The PCI complexes	p. 274
PCI/MPN domain	p. 278
Inter-PCI-complex relationships	p. 279
Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-conjugating cascade	p. 280
Other COP/DET proteins	p. 286
The UPS and plant physiology	p. 288
Signaling Between the Organelles and the Nucleus	p. 307
Introduction	p. 307
Plastid-to-nucleus communication	p. 308
Mitochondria-to-nucleus communication	p. 318
Emission of organellar signals	p. 321
Targets of retrograde communication	p. 323
Organelle-to-organelle communication	p. 325
Concluding remarks	p. 327
Signaling by Protein Phosphorylation in Cell Division	p. 336
Introduction	p. 336
Progression of mitosis by cyclin-dependent kinases in plants	p. 337
Aurora kinases in plants	p. 339
Cytokinesis modulated by the MAP kinase cascade	p. 345
Concluding remarks	p. 351
Guard Cell Signaling	p. 362
Introduction	p. 362
ABA-mediated guard cell signaling	p. 364
CO[subscript 2] signaling in guard cells	p. 373
Light signaling in guard cells	p. 375
Innate immunity in guard cells	p. 377
Extracellular Ca[superscript 2+] sensing in guard cells	p. 378
Conclusions and prospects	p. 379
The Molecular Networks of Abiotic Stress Signaling	p. 388
Introduction	p. 389
Abscisic acid	p. 389
The molecular mechanisms of salt tolerance	p. 395
The transcriptional regulation of cold- and drought-inducible genes	p. 398
Oxidative stress management	p. 402
Posttranscriptionl regulation of gene expression	p. 403
Future perspectives	p. 406
Index	p. 417
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