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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 169, Issue 1, Pages 42-+Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00672
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- National Science Foundation [IOS-1145585]
- National Institutes of Health [GM007601]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1145585] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Strictly controlled production of ethylene gas lies upstream of the signaling activities of this crucial regulator throughout the plant life cycle. Although the biosynthetic pathway is enzymatically simple, the regulatory circuits that modulate signal production are fine tuned to allow integration of responses to environmental and intrinsic cues. Recently identified posttranslational mechanisms that control ethylene production converge on one family of biosynthetic enzymes and overlay several independent reversible phosphorylation events and distinct mediators of ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation. Although the core pathway is conserved throughout seed plants, these posttranslational regulatory mechanisms may represent evolutionarily recent innovations. The evolutionary origins of the pathway and its regulators are not yet clear; outside the seed plants, numerous biochemical and phylogenetic questions remain to be addressed.
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