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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
卷 65, 期 12, 页码 1745-1776出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2004.04.033
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Arabidopsis thaliana; calcium; signaling; Ca (2+)-binding proteins; calmodulin; calmodulin-binding proteins; bioinformatics; proteome; microarray; SELEX; ChIP; tandem affinity purification; mass spectrometry
Calcium functions as a versatile messenger in mediating responses to hormones, biotic/abiotic stress signals and a variety of developmental cues in plants. The Ca2+-signaling circuit consists of three major nodes - generation of a Ca2+-signature in response to a signal, recognition of the signature by Ca2+ sensors and transduction of the signature message to targets that participate in producing signal-specific responses. Molecular genetic and protein-protein interaction approaches together with bioinformatic analysis of the Arabidopsis genome have resulted in identification of a large number of proteins at each node - similar to80 at Ca2+ signature, similar to400 sensors and similar to200 targets - that form a myriad of Ca2+ signaling networks in a mix and match fashion. In parallel, biochemical, cell biological, genetic and transgenic approaches have unraveled functions and regulatory mechanisms of a few of these components. The emerging paradigm from these studies is that plants have many unique Ca2+ signaling proteins. The presence of a large number of proteins, including several families, at each node and potential interaction of several targets by a sensor or vice versa are likely to generate highly complex networks that regulate Ca2+-mediated processes. Therefore, there is a great demand for high-throughput technologies for identification of signaling networks in the Ca2+-signaling-grid and their roles in cellular processes. Here we discuss the current status of Ca2+ signaling components, their known functions and potential of emerging high-throughput genomic and proteomic technologies in unraveling complex Ca2+ circuitry. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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