Plant-specific calmodulin-binding proteins

N Bouché, A Yellin, WA Snedden… - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
Calmodulin CaM is a ubiquitous Ca2+ sensor protein (16 to 18 kD) with no catalytic activity
that can, upon binding Ca2+, activate target proteins involved in various cellular processes …

Calmodulin's flexibility allows for promiscuity in its interactions with target proteins and peptides

AP Yamniuk, HJ Vogel - Molecular biotechnology, 2004 - Springer
The small bilobal calcium regulatory protein calmodulin (CaM) activates numerous target
enzymes in response to transient changes in intracellular calcium concentrations. Binding of …

Calmodulin as a versatile calcium signal transducer in plants

WA Snedden, H Fromm - New phytologist, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of Ca2+ patterns observed in eukaryotic cells, including plants, has led to the
hypothesis that specific patterns of Ca2+ propagation, termed Ca2+ signatures, encode …

Pathogen-and NaCl-induced expression of the SCaM-4 promoter is mediated in part by a GT-1 box that interacts with a GT-1-like transcription factor

HC Park, ML Kim, YH Kang, JM Jeon, JH Yoo… - Plant …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The Ca2+-binding protein calmodulin mediates cellular Ca2+ signals in response to a wide
array of stimuli in higher eukaryotes. Plants express numerous CaM isoforms. Transcription …

Mlo, a modulator of plant defense and cell death, is a novel calmodulin-binding protein: Isolation and characterization of a rice Mlo homologue

MC Kim, SH Lee, JK Kim, HJ Chun, MS Choi… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Transient influx of Ca 2+ constitutes an early event in the signaling cascades that trigger
plant defense responses. However, the downstream components of defense-associated Ca …

Nitric oxide functions as a signal and acts upstream of AtCaM3 in thermotolerance in Arabidopsis seedlings

Y Xuan, S Zhou, L Wang, Y Cheng, L Zhao - Plant Physiology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
To characterize the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the tolerance of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis
thaliana) to heat shock (HS), we investigated the effects of heat on three types of …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis for endothelial nitric oxide synthase binding to calmodulin

M Aoyagi, AS Arvai, JA Tainer, ED Getzoff - The EMBO journal, 2003 - embopress.org
The enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is exquisitely regulated in vivo by the Ca 2+ sensor
protein calmodulin (CaM) to control production of NO, a key signaling molecule and …

[PDF][PDF] Nitric oxide synthases: domain structure and alignment in enzyme function and control

DK Ghosh, JC Salerno - Front Biosci, 2003 - academia.edu
[Frontiers in Bioscience 8, d193-209, January 1, 2003] 193 NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASES:
DOMAIN STRUCTURE AND ALIGNMENT IN ENZYME FUNC Page 1 [Frontiers in …

Transcriptome and proteome depth analysis indicate ABA, MAPK cascade and Ca2+ signaling co-regulate cold tolerance in Rhododendron chrysanthum Pall.

Q Zhang, Y Li, K Cao, H Xu, X Zhou - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Cold stress is a global common problem that significantly limits plant
development and geographical distribution. Plants respond to low temperature stress by …

Transcriptionally and post‐transcriptionally regulated response of 13 calmodulin genes to tobacco mosaic virus‐induced cell death and wounding in tobacco plant

H Yamakawa, I Mitsuhara, N Ito, S Seo… - European Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We isolated 13 tobacco calmodulin (CaM) genes, NtCaM1–13, and analyzed their
expression profile in response to pathogen infection and wounding using specific DNA …