Nomenclature for Members of the Two-Component Signaling Pathway of Plants

0427104 - ÚEB 2014 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Heyl, A. - Brault, M. - Frugier, F. - Kuderová, A. - Lindner, A.C. - Motyka, Václav - Rashotte, A.M. - von Schwartzenberg, K. - Vaňková, Radomíra - Schaller, G.E.
Nomenclature for Members of the Two-Component Signaling Pathway of Plants.
Plant Physiology. Roč. 161, č. 3 (2013), s. 1063-1065. ISSN 0032-0889. E-ISSN 1532-2548
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50380511
Keywords : LIGAND-BINDING * CHASE DOMAIN * TRANSDUCTION
Subject RIV: ED - Physiology
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Plants make use of "two-component systems" (TCSs) for signal transduction that are involved in many vital cellular processes such as responses to cytokinins, ethylene, red light and osmosensing. The TCS in plants incorporates three signaling elements: histidine kinases, histidine-containing phosphotransfer proteins and response regulators. Advances in high throughput sequencing technologies have led to a dramatic increase in the number of sequenced genomes and expressed sequence tags, and concomitantly an increase in the TCS elements identified in different plant species. As there is no common agreement for the nomenclature of TCS elements in plants, this has led to a confusing and in part contradictory naming of newly identified genes of this pathway. The authors suggest general guidelines to be applied to the nomenclature of TCS members from all plant species except for model systems Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa that have been grown historically and are well established.
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