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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Sulfation pathways in plants

A Koprivova, S Kopriva - Chemico-biological interactions, 2016 - Elsevier
Plants take up sulfur in the form of sulfate. Sulfate is activated to adenosine 5′-
phosphosulfate (APS) and reduced to sulfite and then to sulfide when it is assimilated into …

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 …

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 …

Structure and mechanism of soybean ATP sulfurylase and the committed step in plant sulfur assimilation

J Herrmann, GE Ravilious, SE McKinney… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Enzymes of the sulfur assimilation pathway are potential targets for improving nutrient
content and environmental stress responses in plants. The committed step in this pathway is …

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 …

Kinetic mechanism of the dimeric ATP sulfurylase from plants

GE Ravilious, J Herrmann, S Goo Lee, CS Westfall… - 2013 - portlandpress.com
In plants, sulfur must be obtained from the environment and assimilated into usable forms for
metabolism. ATP sulfurylase catalyses the thermodynamically unfavourable formation of a …