The lowdown on breakdown: Open questions in plant proteolysis

NA Eckardt, T Avin-Wittenberg, DC Bassham… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Proteolysis, including post-translational proteolytic processing as well as protein
degradation and amino acid recycling, is an essential component of the growth and …

Autophagy during drought: function, regulation, and potential application

J Tang, DC Bassham - The Plant Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a major challenge for agricultural production since it causes substantial yield
reduction and economic loss. Autophagy is a subcellular degradation and recycling pathway …

A tripartite rheostat controls self-regulated host plant resistance to insects

J Guo, H Wang, W Guan, Q Guo, J Wang, J Yang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Plants deploy receptor-like kinases and nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors to
confer host plant resistance (HPR) to herbivores. These gene-for-gene interactions between …

Detection of the Arabidopsis Proteome and Its Post-translational Modifications and the Nature of the Unobserved (Dark) Proteome in PeptideAtlas

KJ van Wijk, T Leppert, Z Sun, A Kearly… - Journal of proteome …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This study describes a new release of the Arabidopsis thaliana PeptideAtlas proteomics
resource (build 2023–10) providing protein sequence coverage, matched mass …

Plant autophagosomes mature into amphisomes prior to their delivery to the central vacuole

J Zhao, MT Bui, J Ma, F Künzl, L Picchianti… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
Autophagosomes are double-membraned vesicles that traffic harmful or unwanted cellular
macromolecules to the vacuole for recycling. Although autophagosome biogenesis has …

Type one protein phosphatase regulates fixed-carbon starvation-induced autophagy in Arabidopsis

Q Wang, Q Qin, M Su, N Li, J Zhang, Y Liu, L Yan… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Autophagy, a conserved pathway that carries out the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic
material in eukaryotic cells, is critical for plant physiology and development. This process is …

Autophagy in maternal tissues contributes to Arabidopsis seed development

OA Erlichman, S Weiss, M Abu Arkia… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Seeds are an essential food source, providing nutrients for germination and early seedling
growth. Degradation events in the seed and the mother plant accompany seed …

New insights into plant autophagy: molecular mechanisms and roles in development and stress responses

M Yagyu, K Yoshimoto - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic intracellular degradation process.
Although the molecular mechanisms of plant autophagy share similarities with those in yeast …

Target of rapamycin in control of autophagy: puppet master and signal integrator

Y Mugume, Z Kazibwe, DC Bassham - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The target of rapamycin (TOR) is an evolutionarily-conserved serine/threonine kinase that
senses and integrates signals from the environment to coordinate developmental and …

Motif-based endomembrane trafficking

D Arora, DV Damme - Plant Physiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Endomembrane trafficking, which allows proteins and lipids to flow between the different
endomembrane compartments, largely occurs by vesicle-mediated transport …