Partitioning of Sulfur Between Primary and Secondary Metabolism

SG Mugford, C Matthewman, BR Lee… - Sulfur Metabolism in …, 2012 - Springer
The essential macronutrient sulfur enters plants as inorganic sulfate, which is assimilated by
reduction to sulfide and incorporation into cysteine or by transfer to various metabolites as …

Structural biology and regulation of the plant sulfation pathway

JM Jez, GE Ravilious, J Herrmann - Chemico-Biological Interactions, 2016 - Elsevier
In plants, sulfur is an essential nutrient that must be converted into usable metabolic forms
for the formation of sulfur-containing amino acids and peptides (primary route) and for the …

Regulation of sulfate uptake and assimilation—the same or not the same?

JC Davidian, S Kopriva - Molecular plant, 2010 - cell.com
Plant take up the essential nutrient sulfur as sulfate from the soil, reduce it, and assimilate
into bioorganic compounds, with cysteine being the first product. Both sulfate uptake and …

Control of sulfur partitioning between primary and secondary metabolism

SG Mugford, BR Lee, A Koprivova… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur is an essential nutrient for all organisms. Plants take up most sulfur as inorganic
sulfate, reduce it and incorporate it into cysteine during primary sulfate assimilation …

Catalysts for sulfur: understanding the intricacies of enzymes orchestrating plant sulfur anabolism

Z Xu, D Liu, J Zhu, J Zhao, S Shen, Y Wang, P Yu - Planta, 2025 - Springer
Main conclusion This review highlights the sulfur transporters, key enzymes and their
encoding genes involved in plant sulfur anabolism, focusing on their occurrence, chemistry …

Control of sulfur partitioning between primary and secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis

S Kopriva, SG Mugford, P Baraniecka, BR Lee… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Sulfur is an essential nutrient for all organisms. Plants are able to take up inorganic sulfate
and assimilate it into a range of bio-organic molecules either after reduction to sulfide or …

Redefining reductive sulfate assimilation in higher plants: a role for APS reductase, a new member of the thioredoxin superfamily?

JL Wray, EI Campbell, MA Roberts… - Chemico-biological …, 1998 - Elsevier
The reaction steps leading from the intermediate adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (APS) to
sulfide within the higher plant reductive sulfate assimilation pathway are the subject of …

Thiol redox-regulation for efficient adjustment of sulfur metabolism in acclimation to abiotic stress

W Telman, KJ Dietz - Journal of experimental botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sulfur assimilation and sulfur metabolism are tightly controlled at the transcriptional, post-
transcriptional, and post-translational levels in order to meet the demand for reduced sulfur …

Frontiers of sulfur metabolism in plant growth, development, and stress response

S Kopriva, D Talukdar, H Takahashi, R Hell… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plants assimilate inorganic sulfur and metabolize it further to organic sulfur compounds
essential for plant growth, development, and stress mitigation. Animals including humans in …

Plant sulfur metabolism—the reduction of sulfate to sulfite

JA Bick, T Leustek - Current opinion in plant biology, 1998 - Elsevier
Until recently the pathway by which plants reduce activated sulfate to sulfite was unresolved.
Recent findings on two enzymes termed 5′-adenylylsulfate (APS) sulfotransferase and …