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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Regulatory protein-protein interactions in primary metabolism: the case of the cysteine synthase complex

S Kumaran, JA Francois, HB Krishnan… - Sulfur Assimilation and …, 2008 - Springer
Sulfur is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development. In plant sulfur assimilation,
cysteine biosynthesis plays a central role in fixing inorganic sulfur from the environment into …

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 …

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 …

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 …