Plant cysteine endoproteinases and their multiple physiological roles
Małgorzata Grudkowska
m.grudkowska@ihar.edu.plInstytut Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin w Radzikowie (Poland)
Barbara Zagdańska
Zakład Biochemii, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie (Poland)
Abstract
Cysteine endoproteinases are recognised as the major enzymes responsible for the initiation and subsequent massive hydrolysis of seed storage proteins during germination and early seedling growth and development. These enzymes are also involved in such important processes as organ senescence and xylogenesis. In response to unfavourable environmental conditions like low and high temperature, water deficit and salinity as well as to biotic stresses, the up-regulation of expression of genes encoding cysteine endoproteinases has been shown. Their supposed physiological function is not restricted to removal of denatured proteins, toxic in cases of pathogen infection or insect attack, abnormal proteins resulting from the stress-induced changes and to degradation of proteins no longer required by a cell in a new metabolic state. Another important function of these enzymes may be linked to activation of stress-induced non-specific proteins. On the basis of experiments carried out on 55 cultivars and strains of winter wheat and on ten cultivars of spring wheat it has been shown that the induction of cysteine endoproteinases was significantly correlated with the level of drought tolerance of spring and winter wheat as well as with the level of frost tolerance of winter wheat.
Keywords:
cysteine endoproteinases, protein hydrolysis, frost resistance, drought resistance, biotic stress resistanceReferences
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Małgorzata Grudkowskam.grudkowska@ihar.edu.pl
Instytut Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin w Radzikowie Poland
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