[HTML][HTML] Plant unsaturated fatty acids: multiple roles in stress response

M He, NZ Ding - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Land plants are exposed to not only biotic stresses such as pathogen infection and
herbivore wounding, but abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, and salt. Elaborate …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and mechanism of human ABC transporters

A Alam, KP Locher - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
ABC transporters are essential for cellular physiology. Humans have 48 ABC genes
organized into seven distinct families. Of these genes, 44 (in five distinct families) encode for …

Biosynthesis and metabolic actions of simple phenolic acids in plants

R Marchiosi, WD dos Santos, RP Constantin… - Phytochemistry …, 2020 - Springer
The diversity of secondary compounds in the plant kingdom is huge. About 200,000
compounds are known, which are grouped into amines, non-protein amino acids, peptides …

[HTML][HTML] Carnitine transport and fatty acid oxidation

N Longo, M Frigeni, M Pasquali - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2016 - Elsevier
Carnitine is essential for the transfer of long-chain fatty acids across the inner mitochondrial
membrane for subsequent β-oxidation. It can be synthesized by the body or assumed with …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid droplets: packing hydrophobic molecules within the aqueous cytoplasm

A Guzha, P Whitehead, T Ischebeck… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Lipid droplets, also known as oil bodies or lipid bodies, are plant organelles that
compartmentalize neutral lipids as a hydrophobic matrix covered by proteins embedded in a …

Mechanisms and functions of membrane lipid remodeling in plants

L Yu, C Zhou, J Fan, J Shanklin, C Xu - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lipid remodeling, defined herein as post‐synthetic structural modifications of membrane
lipids, play crucial roles in regulating the physicochemical properties of cellular membranes …

[HTML][HTML] Plant ABC transporters enable many unique aspects of a terrestrial plant's lifestyle

JU Hwang, WY Song, D Hong, D Ko, Y Yamaoka… - Molecular plant, 2016 - cell.com
Terrestrial plants have two to four times more ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter genes
than other organisms, including their ancestral microalgae. Recent studies found that plants …

[HTML][HTML] Jasmonates: news on occurrence, biosynthesis, metabolism and action of an ancient group of signaling compounds

C Wasternack, M Strnad - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Jasmonic acid (JA) and its related derivatives are ubiquitously occurring compounds of land
plants acting in numerous stress responses and development. Recent studies on evolution …

[HTML][HTML] A familiar ring to it: biosynthesis of plant benzoic acids

JR Widhalm, N Dudareva - Molecular plant, 2015 - cell.com
Plant benzoic acids (BAs) are building blocks or important structural elements for numerous
primary and specialized metabolites, including plant hormones, cofactors, defense …

ABC transporter research: going strong 40 years on

FL Theodoulou, ID Kerr - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2015 - portlandpress.com
In most organisms, ABC transporters constitute one of the largest families of membrane
proteins. In humans, their functions are diverse and underpin numerous key physiological …