The role of dwarfing traits in historical and modern agriculture with a focus on rice

Á Ferrero-Serrano, C Cantos… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Semidwarf stature is a valuable agronomic trait in grain crops that reduces lodging and
increases harvest index. A fundamental advance during the 1960s Green Revolution was …

G protein subunit phosphorylation as a regulatory mechanism in heterotrimeric G protein signaling in mammals, yeast, and plants

D Chakravorty, SM Assmann - Biochemical Journal, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Heterotrimeric G proteins composed of Gα, Gβ, and Gγ subunits are vital eukaryotic
signaling elements that convey information from ligand-regulated G protein-coupled …

Heterotrimeric G proteins in plants: canonical and atypical Gα subunits

N Maruta, Y Trusov, AM Jones, JR Botella - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins), consisting of Gα, Gβ and Gγ subunits,
transduce signals from a diverse range of extracellular stimuli, resulting in the regulation of …

Rational design of a heterotrimeric G protein α subunit with artificial inhibitor sensitivity

D Malfacini, J Patt, S Annala, K Harpsøe… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Transmembrane signals initiated by a range of extracellular stimuli converge on members of
the Gq family of heterotrimeric G proteins, which relay these signals in target cells. Gq family …

G-Protein phosphorylation: Aspects of binding specificity and function in the plant kingdom

CC Oliveira, AM Jones, EPB Fontes… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant survival depends on adaptive mechanisms that constantly rely on signal recognition
and transduction. The predominant class of signal discriminators is receptor kinases, with a …

BAK1‐mediated phosphorylation of canonical G protein alpha during flagellin signaling in Arabidopsis

J Xue, BQ Gong, X Yao, X Huang… - Journal of integrative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heterotrimeric G proteins consisting of Gα, Gβ and Gγ are conserved signaling hubs in
eukaryotes. Without analogs to canonical animal G protein‐coupled receptors, plant cells …

Heterotrimeric G protein signalling in plant biotic and abiotic stress response

H Zhang, P Xie, X Xu, Q Xie, F Yu - Plant biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heterotrimeric G proteins act as molecular switches to participate in transmitting various
stimuli signals from outside of cells. G proteins have three subunits, Gα, Gβ and Gγ, which …

Towards resolution of a paradox in plant G-protein signaling

KR Ghusinga, TC Elston, AM Jones - Plant Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
G-proteins are molecular on–off switches that are involved in transmitting a variety of
extracellular signals to their intracellular targets. In animal and yeast systems, the switch …

GCR1 positively regulates UV-B-and ethylene-induced stomatal closure via activating GPA1-dependent ROS and NO production

X Li, Q Fu, FX Zhao, YQ Wu, TY Zhang, ZQ Li… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heterotrimeric G proteins function as key players in guard cell signaling to many stimuli,
including ultraviolet B (UV-B) and ethylene, but whether guard cell G protein signaling is …

An atypical heterotrimeric Gα protein has substantially reduced nucleotide binding but retains nucleotide-independent interactions with its cognate RGS protein and …

F Lou, TM Abramyan, H Jia, A Tropsha… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Plants uniquely have a family of proteins called extra-large G proteins (XLG) that share
homology in their C-terminal half with the canonical Gα subunits; we carefully detail here …