Structural biology of plant sulfur metabolism: from sulfate to glutathione

JM Jez - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sulfur is an essential element for all organisms. Plants must assimilate this nutrient from the
environment and convert it into metabolically useful forms for the biosynthesis of a wide …

Structural biology of plant sulfur metabolism: from assimilation to biosynthesis

GE Ravilious, JM Jez - Natural Product Reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1966 to 2012 Sulfur is an essential element that must be assimilated by all
organisms; however, the metabolic pathways for this task vary significantly, even among …

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 …

Pathways and regulation of sulfur metabolism revealed through molecular and genetic studies

T Leustek, MN Martin, JA Bick… - Annual review of plant …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Sulfur is essential for life. Its oxidation state is in constant flux as it circulates
through the global sulfur cycle. Plants play a key role in the cycle since they are primary …

Molecular physiology of plant sulfur metabolism

R Hell - Planta, 1997 - JSTOR
Sulfur in its different oxidation states represents one of the most versatile elements in
biology. Sulfur metabo lism in plants includes uptake of the macronutrient sulfate from the …

Redox regulation of enzymes involved in sulfate assimilation and in the synthesis of sulfur-containing amino acids and glutathione in plants

L De Bont, N Donnay, J Couturier… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sulfur is essential in plants because of its presence in numerous molecules including the
two amino acids, cysteine, and methionine. Cysteine serves also for the synthesis of …

Rhodanese domain-containing sulfurtransferases: multifaceted proteins involved in sulfur trafficking in plants

B Selles, A Moseler, N Rouhier… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sulfur is an essential element for the growth and development of plants, which synthesize
cysteine and methionine from the reductive assimilation of sulfate. Besides its incorporation …

Sulfur assimilation and the role of sulfur in plant metabolism: a survey

M Droux - Photosynthesis Research, 2004 - Springer
Sulfur occurs in two major amino-acids, cysteine (Cys) and methionine (Met), essential for
the primary and secondary metabolism of the plant. Cys, as the first carbon/nitrogen-reduced …

Sensing sulfur conditions: simple to complex protein regulatory mechanisms in plant thiol metabolism

H Yi, A Galant, GE Ravilious, ML Preuss, JM Jez - Molecular Plant, 2010 - cell.com
Sulfur is essential for plant growth and development, and the molecular systems for
maintaining sulfur and thiol metabolism are tightly controlled. From a biochemical …

Functional analysis of the cysteine synthase protein complex from plants: structural, biochemical and regulatory properties

M Wirtz, R Hell - Journal of plant physiology, 2006 - Elsevier
Cysteine synthesis in plants represents the final step of assimilatory sulfate reduction and
the almost exclusive entry reaction of reduced sulfur into metabolism not only of plants, but …