Journal Article

From structure to function - a family portrait of plant subtilases

Institute of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology ; Universität Hohenheim = University of Hohenheim, Ramírez, Vicente, The Plant Chemetics Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences ; University of Oxford, Serrano Valdivia, Irene, Laboratoire des interactions plantes micro-organismes (LIPM) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chichkova, Nina V, Instituto de Fisiología Vegetal [La Plata] (INFIVE) ; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo [La Plata] (FCNyM) ; Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP), van Der Hoorn, Renier A. L, Sueldo, Daniela J, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) ; French Laboratory of Excellence project 'TULIP' : ANR-10-LABX-41, ANR-11-IDEX-0002-02 ; Spanish MINECO : BFU2015-68199-R ; Generalitat Valenciana : PrometeoII/2014/024 ; Russian Science Foundation : 16-14-10043 ; Russian Foundation for Basic Research : 14-04-00232, 14-04-00256, 14-

2018

Overview

Subtilases (SBTs) are serine peptidases that are found in all three domains of life. As compared with homologs in other Eucarya, plant SBTs are more closely related to archaeal and bacterial SBTs, with which they share many biochemical and structural features. However, in the course of evolution, functional diversification led to the acquisition of novel, plant-specific functions, resulting in the present-day complexity of the plant SBT family. SBTs are much more numerous in plants than in any other organism, and include enzymes involved in general proteolysis as well as highly specific processing proteases. Most SBTs are targeted to the cell wall, where they contribute to the control of growth and development by regulating the properties of the cell wall and the activity of extracellular signaling molecules. Plant SBTs affect all stages of the life cycle as they contribute to embryogenesis, seed development and germination, cuticle formation and epidermal patterning, vascular development, programmed cell death, organ abscission, senescence, and plant responses to their biotic and abiotic environments. In this article we provide a comprehensive picture of SBT structure and function in plants.

• Publisher: Wiley,CCSD,New Phytologist Trust,Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subject: Abscission / Apoptosis / Archaea / Cell death / Cell walls / Cuticles / Embryogenesis / Embryonic growth stage / Extracellular / Germination / Homology / Life cycle / Life cycle engineering / Life cycles / Life Sciences / Pattern formation / Peptidases / peptide signaling / phylogeny / plant defense / plant development / plant response / precursor processing / proteinases / Proteolysis / seed development / Senescence / Serine / Signaling / Structure-function relationships / structure–function relationship / subtilisin‐like proteinase / Tansley review / Vegetal Biology
• ISBN: 0004301270000