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... During the terminal stage of stomatal development, the R2R3‐MYB transcription factors FOUR LIPS (FLP/MYB124) and MYB88 limit guard mother cell division by repressing the transcript levels of multiple cell‐cycle genes. In Arabidopsis thaliana possessing the weak allele flp‐1, an extra guard mother cell division results in two stomata having direct contact. Here, we identified an ethylmethane sulfon ...
... Abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in seed germination, stomatal closure, and seedling growth inhibition in plants. Among downstream genes whose expression levels are regulated by AFA1 (Arabidopsis F-box Protein Hypersensitive to ABA 1), one gene, AtHAD1 upregulated by ABA was selected from Arabidopsis. AtHAD1 was induced by drought and salt stresses as well as by ABA and was found in dry ...
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus; F-box proteins; Nicotiana benthamiana; Pinus thunbergii; disease control; double-stranded RNA; fatty acids; forest diseases; immune system; immunosuppression; jasmonic acid; ligands; parasitism; pathogenesis; pathogenicity; peptides; pest management; polyclonal antibodies; precipitin tests; two hybrid system techniques; vascular wilt; vitamin A
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... BACKGROUND: The pine wilt disease (PWD) caused by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a devastating forest disease and its pathogenesis remains unclear. Secreted enzymes and proteins are important pathogenicity determinants and Bx‐FAR‐1 is an important pathogenic protein involved in the interaction between pine and B. xylophilus. However, the function of the Bx‐FAR‐1 protein in monitoring and prevention ...
F-box proteins; brassinosteroids; growth and development; phenotype; plant growth
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... BRASSINOSTEROIDS (BRs) play important roles in regulating plant growth and development. The Arabidopsis GSK3-like kinase BIN2, a major negative regulator of BR signaling, plays diverse roles in plant growth and developmental processes. In a previous study, based on the relationship between BIN2 and its substrate, we reported the possibility that BIN2 protein stability is controlled by BRASSINOSTER ...
Codonopsis lanceolata; F-box proteins; Western blotting; adipocytes; anti-obesity effects; beta oxidation; blood lipids; epididymis; gene expression; high fat diet; high performance liquid chromatography; histology; insulin; ionization; muscle fibers; muscle protein; muscle strength; muscles; myotubes; non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase; obesity; palmitic acid; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; phosphorylation; protein degradation; protein synthesis; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ribosomal proteins; sarcopenia; skeletal muscle; spectroscopy; therapeutics; triacylglycerols
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... The incidence of sarcopenic obesity, muscle atrophy induced by obesity, has steadily increased and is emerging as a health problem. Although the anti-obesity effect of Codonopsis lanceolata (CL) is known, its efficacy against sarcopenic obesity has not been studied.We aimed to investigate the effect of CL on sarcopenic obesity and the changes in the related mechanisms to confirm the potential of C ...
... Background: Skeletal muscle atrophy is caused by aging, disuse, malnutrition, and several diseases. However, there are still no effective drugs or treatments for muscle atrophy. Codonopsis lanceolata (CL), a traditional medicinal plant and food, has been reported to have anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-obesity effects. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy a ...
... Phytoplasma-associated diseases such as phyllody and little leaf are critical threats to sesame cultivation worldwide. The mechanism of the dramatic conversion of flowers to leafy structures leading to yield losses and the drastic reduction in leaf size due to Phytoplasma infection remains yet to be identified. Cytosine methylation profiles of healthy and infected sesame plants studied using Whole ...
... Carrot is one of the nutritious vegetable crops sensitive to drought stress resulting in loss of quality and yield. There are a lot of studies on detailed molecular mechanisms of drought stress response of main crops; however, very little information available on vegetables, including carrots. Hence, in this study, we investigated root transcriptome profiles from the meristematic region of two con ...
... Plant branch and root growth relies on metabolism of the strigolactone (SL) hormone. The interaction between the SL molecule, Oryza sativa DWARF14 (D14) SL receptor, and D3 F-box protein has been shown to play a critical role in SL perception. Previously, it was believed that D3 only interacts with the closed form of D14 to induce downstream signaling, but recent experiments indicate that D3, as w ...
... Previously it was shown that cisplatin causes muscle atrophy. Under this condition, cisplatin increased the expression of atorogenes, such as muscle ring finger 1 and atrogin-1 (also known as muscle atrophy F-box protein), in mouse skeletal muscle. It was reported recently that ubiquitin (Ub) and ubiquitinated protein levels in skeletal muscle were also up-regulated in cisplatin-induced muscle atr ...
Arabidopsis; F-box proteins; drought; drought tolerance; genes; heat; phenotype; plant development; salt stress; salt tolerance; ubiquitin-protein ligase; water stress
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... F-box protein genes have been shown to play vital roles in plant development and stress respones. In Arabidopsis, there are more than 600 F-box proteins, and most of their functions are unclear. The present study shows that the F-box (SKP1-Cullin/CDC53-F-box) gene At5g15710 (Salt and Drought Responsiveness, SDR) is involved in abiotic stress responses in Arabidopsis. SDR is expressed in all tissue ...
... The F-box proteins (FBP), substrate recognition subunit of the SCF (Skp1-Cullin1-F-box protein complex) E3 ligase, play important roles in the ubiquitylation and subsequent degradation of the target proteins from several cellular processes. Disorders of F-box protein-mediated proteolysis lead to human malignancies. FBP plays an important role in many cellular processes, including cell proliferatio ...
... F-box proteins form SCF (Cullin1, SKP1 and F-box-protein) ubiquitin ligase complexes to ubiquitinate cellular proteins. They play key role in several biological processes, including cell cycle progression, cellular signaling, stress response and cell death pathways. Therefore, deregulation of F-box proteins is closely associated with cancer progression. However, the role of most of the F-box prote ...
... Soil salinity is a serious problem encountered by agriculture worldwide, which will lead to many harmful effects on plant growth, development, and even crop yield. F-box protein is the core subunit of the Skp1-Cullin-F-box (SCF) complex E3 ligase and plays crucial roles in regulating the growth, development, biotic & abiotic stresses, as well as hormone signaling pathway in plants. In this study, ...
... FBXW2 is a poorly characterized F-box protein, as a tumor suppressor that inhibits growth and metastasis of lung cancer by promoting ubiquitylation and degradation of oncogenic proteins, including SKP2 and β-catenin. However, what the biological functions of FBXW2 in prostate cancer cells and whether FBXW2 targets other substrates to involve in progression of prostate cancer is still unclear. Here ...
... Meiosis is an essential reproductive process to create new genetic variation. During early meiosis, higher order chromosome organization creates a platform for meiotic processes to ensure the accuracy of recombination and chromosome segregation. However, little is known about the regulatory mechanisms underlying dynamic chromosome organization in plant meiosis. Here, we describe abnormal chromosom ...
F-box proteins; GATA transcription factors; RING finger domains; domestication; fruit morphology; fruits; genome-wide association study; grapes; horticulture; single nucleotide polymorphism; tomatoes; transcription initiation; ubiquitin-protein ligase
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... BACKGROUND: In the breeding of new horticultural crops, fruit shape is an important selection characteristic. A variety of fruit shapes appeared during the gradual process of selection and domestication. However, few studies have been conducted on grape berry shape, especially studies related to mining candidate genes. To discover candidate genes related to grape berry shape, the present study fir ...
... Frailty develops due to multiple factors, such as sarcopenia, chronic pain, and dementia. Go-sha-jinki-Gan (GJG) is a traditional Japanese herbal medicine used for age-related symptoms. We have reported that GJG improved sarcopenia, chronic pain, and central nervous system function through suppression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) production. In the present study, GJG was found to reduce ...
... The effect and the mechanism of high glucose on fish muscle cells are not fully understood. In the present study, muscle cells of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) were treated with high glucose (33 mM) in vitro. Cells were incubated in three kinds of medium containing 5 mM glucose, 5 mM glucose and 28 mM mannitol (as an isotonic contrast) or 33 mM glucose named the Control group, the Mannit ...
Paterne Angelot Agre; Kwabena Darkwa; Bunmi Olasanmi; Olufisayo Kolade; Pierre Mournet; Ranjana Bhattacharjee; Antonio Lopez-Montes; David De Koeyer; Patrick Adebola; Lava Kumar; Robert Asiedu; Asrat Asfaw
... Anthracnose disease caused by a fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is the primary cause of yield loss in water yam (Dioscorea alata), the widely cultivated species of yam. Resistance to yam anthracnose disease (YAD) is a prime target in breeding initiatives to develop durable-resistant cultivars for sustainable management of the disease in water yam cultivation. This study aimed at tagging quan ...
... Lactobacillus plantarum is known beneficial for the fish to defend against Aeromonas hydrophila infection which causes major disease outbreaks and severe economic losses for aquaculture. However, the mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, 240 zebrafish with an average body weights of 0.33 ± 0.01 g were randomly divided into 4 groups. The zebrafish were fed a basal diet supplemented with ...
... MAIN CONCLUSION: The local and long-distance signaling pathways mediated by the leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase HAR1 suppress root branching and promote primary root length in response to nitrate supply. The root morphology of higher plants changes plastically to effectively absorb nutrients and water from the soil. In particular, legumes develop root organ nodules, in which symbiotic rhizobia ...
... As one of the largest transcription factor families, C2H2 zinc finger proteins contain a zinc finger motif and a conserved DNA-binding homeodomain. Although C2H2 zinc finger proteins have been found to play an essential role in ethylene biosynthetic and cold stress in banana fruit, their transcriptional regulatory mechanisms involved in the softening of ‘Fenjiao’ banana remain largely elusive. In ...
... In wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), the floret development stage is an important step in determining grain yield per spike; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying floret development remain unclear. In this study, we elucidated the role of TaF‐box2, a member of the F‐box‐containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligases, which is involved in floret development and anthesis of wheat. TaF‐box2 was transient ...
... DNA from four sweet cherry seedlings derived from gamma-irradiated female parents was sequenced via nanopore technology (Oxford Nanopore MinION). Total data yield was 8.07 Gb, ranging from 0.92 to 3.36 Gb per sample, with the average length of mapped reads ranging from 22 Kbp–24 Kbp. Sequence data was then analysed to identify and characterize variants using a published sweet cherry reference geno ...
... In response to dynamically altered environments, plants must finely coordinate the balance between growth and stress responses for their survival. However, the underpinning regulatory mechanisms remain largely elusive. The phytohormone gibberellin promotes growth via a derepression mechanism by proteasomal degradation of the DELLA transcription repressors. Conversely, the stress-induced burst of n ...
... Processed aconite root (PA), the tuberous root of Aconitum carmichaelii prepared by autoclaving, is a crude drug used in Japanese traditional Kampo medicine and traditional Chinese medicine for the symptoms of kidney deficiency, that is related to the muscle atrophy in modern medicine. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the effectiveness of PA on muscle atrophy and to find its activ ...
... The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of taurine on endoplasmic reticulum stress, inflammatory cytokine expression and mitochondrial oxidative stress induced by high glucose in primary cultured muscle cells of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Three experimental groups were designed as follows: muscle cells of olive flounder incubated with three kinds of medium containing ...
Arabidopsis; CRISPR-Cas systems; F-box proteins; Zea mays; corn; dehiscence; gametophytes; jasmonic acid; male fertility; male sterility; males; mutants; mutation; pollen; pollen germination; pollen viability; seed development; transcriptomics; two hybrid system techniques
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... In higher plants, the generation and release of viable pollen from anthers is vital for double fertilization and the initiation of seed development. Thus, the characterization of genes related to pollen development and anther dehiscence in plants is of great significance. The F‐box protein COI1 plays a crucial role in the jasmonate (JA) signaling pathway and interacts with many JAZ family proteins ...
... The self-incompatibility recognition mechanism determines whether the gametophyte is successfully fertilized between pollen tube SCF (SKP1–CUL1–F-box-RBX1) protein and pistil S-RNase protein during fertilization is unclear. In this study, the pistils of two almond cultivars ‘Wanfeng’ and ‘Nonpareil’ were used as the experimental materials after self- and nonself/cross-pollination, and pistils from ...
... F‐box protein is a key component of the Skp1‐cullin‐F‐box‐type ubiquitin ligase complex (SCF‐ULC) that marks its target proteins with ubiquitin for proteasomal degradation. In this study, we explored the potential role of AOL_s00076g207 (Aog207) in Arthrobotrys oligospora, a model fungus for studying nematodes‐fungi interactions. The Aog207 gene encodes a putative F‐box protein of the SCF‐ULC. Del ...
... ERECTA PANICLE 3 (EP3) and ORYZA SATIVA F‐BOX KELCH 1 (OsFBK1) proteins share 57% and 54% sequence identity with the Arabidopsis F‐box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT (HWS). Previously we showed that EP3 is a functional orthologue of HWS. Here we demonstrate that OsFBK1 is another functional orthologue of HWS and show the complexity of interaction between EP3 and OsFBK1 genes at different developmental sta ...
... The effects of the phytohormone strigolactone (SL) and smoke-derived karrikins (KARs) on plants are generally distinct, despite the fact that they are perceived through very similar mechanisms. The homologous receptors DWARF14 (D14) and KARRIKIN-INSENSITIVE2 (KAI2), together with the F-box protein MORE AXILLARY GROWTH2 (MAX2), mediate SL and KAR responses, respectively, by targeting different SMAX ...
... Plants experience abiotic stresses throughout their life cycle and accordingly respond to tide over the unfavorable conditions. Plants adopt to drought stress through various molecular, biochemical, physiological and cellular processes. F-box protein subunit of the Skp1-Cullin-F-box (SCF) E3 ubiquitin ligases plays crucial role in imparting specificity for selective degradation of target proteins. ...
... Arsenic (As), a non-biodegradable contaminant, is extremely toxic to plants and animals in its inorganic form. As negatively affects plant growth and development, primarily by inducing oxidative stress through redox imbalance. Here we characterized the Arabidopsis F-box protein gene AT2G16220 (Arsenic Stress-Related F-box (ASRF)) that we identified in the genome-wide association study. The asrf mu ...
... Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the best plant fiber source in the world and provides the raw material for industry. Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb. is accepted as a major disease of cotton production. The most practical way to deal with verticillium wilt is to develop resistant/tolerant varieties after cultural practices. One of the effective selections in plant breeding is the ...
... Vegetable oil is a major edible oil and an important industrial raw material. However, breeders have found it challenging to improve the oil content of crop seeds, and little is known about regulators with the potential to increase oil content via molecular engineering in modern oil crop breeding. We reported an F‐box protein, Arabidopsis thaliana MYB Interaction Factor 1 (AtMIF1), which is a memb ...
F-box proteins; agronomy; growth and development; peptides; plant hormones; protein degradation; ubiquitin-protein ligase; ubiquitination
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... The ubiquitin–proteasome pathway (UPP) is an important protein degradation pathway that can participate in the regulation of the physiological process of organisms by specifically removing abnormal peptides and degrading cell regulators. UPP mainly involves three enzymes, among which the E3 ubiquitin ligase function is central to UPP. E3 ubiquitin ligases can recruit substrate protein for ubiquiti ...
... F-box protein FBXW8 is known to interact with scaffolding protein Cullin1 and Cullin7 to form SCF (SKP1, Cullin and F-box protein) complex. However, detail understanding about the importance of both Cullins for SCF-FBXW8 complex formation as well as its ubiquitin ligase activity remains elusive. Here, we show that, through in vitro and in vivo studies, Cullin1 and Cullin7 increase each other's bin ...
Arabidopsis; F-box proteins; Fagopyrum tataricum; amino acids; biosynthesis; buckwheat; crops; dwarfing; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; ethyl methanesulfonate; gene expression regulation; genes; gibberellic acid; homozygosity; industry; jasmonic acid; mutants; phenotype; plant height; salicylic acid; sequence analysis; signal transduction; single nucleotide polymorphism; tandem mass spectrometry; transcriptomics
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... BACKGROUND: Tartary buckwheat is an important minor crop species with high nutritional and medicinal value and is widely planted worldwide. Cultivated Tartary buckwheat plants are tall and have hollow stems that lodge easily, which severely affects their yield and hinders the development of the Tartary buckwheat industry. METHODS: Heifeng No. 1 seeds were treated with ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS) t ...
... Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is one of the widely cultivated vegetable crops in the world. The color formation of pepper fruit is closely related to the carotenoid composition and content. In order to understand the regulatory mechanism of red and orange pepper formation, comprehensive transcriptome and carotenoid content determination were carried out at 25, 40 and 55 days after flower. At the mat ...
... KEY MESSAGE: An unusual flower and tendril (uft) mutant in cucumber was caused by a mutation in Csa1G056950 encoding an F-box protein. Flowers and tendrils are important agronomic and yield traits of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). In this study, we identified an unusual flower and tendril (uft) mutant from an ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis population. Genetic analysis revealed that the p ...
... Ubiquitination is a post-translational modification involved in diverse cellular processes in eukaryotes. Among three kinds of enzymes (E1, E2, and E3) involved in ubiquitination, the E3 ubiquitin ligase family possesses a large number of members (up to 1400) and serves as a major determinant for substrate specificity. As a type of E3 ligase, cullin-RING E3 ligase (CRL) forms multi-subunit complex ...
... The C2H2‐type zinc finger transcription factor sensitive to proton rhizotoxicity 1 (STOP1) is crucial for aluminum (Al) resistance in Arabidopsis. The F‐box protein Regulation of AtALMT1 Expression 1 (RAE1) was recently reported to regulate the stability of STOP1. There is a unique homolog of RAE1, RAH1 (RAE1 homolog 1), in Arabidopsis, but the biological function of RAH1 is still not known. In th ...
... BACKGROUND: Picolinate/picolinic acid compounds are an important class of synthetic auxin herbicides. To explore the herbicidal activity of 6‐pyrazolyl picolinate compounds, a series of 3‐chloro‐6‐pyrazolyl‐picolinate derivatives was designed and synthesized. RESULTS: Twenty‐five 3‐chloro‐6‐pyrazolyl‐picolinate derivatives synthesized were tested for herbicidal activity and the IC₅₀ value of compo ...
Valentine Spagnol; Caio A.B. Oliveira; Suzanne J. Randle; Patrícia M.S. Passos; Camila R.S.T.B. Correia; Natália B. Simaroli; Joice S. Oliveira; Tycho E.T. Mevissen; Ana Carla Medeiros; Marcelo D. Gomes; David Komander; Heike Laman; Felipe Roberti Teixeira
... Ubiquitously eXpressed Transcript isoform 2 (UXTV2) is a prefoldin-like protein involved in NF-κB signaling, apoptosis, and the androgen and estrogen response. UXT-V2 is a cofactor in the NF-κB transcriptional enhanceosome, and its knockdown inhibits TNF-α -induced NF-κB activation. Fbxo7 is an F-box protein that interacts with SKP1, Cullin1 and RBX1 proteins to form an SCF(Fbxo7) E3 ubiquitin lig ...
... Sequential alteration in the expression levels of cell cycle regulatory proteins is crucial for faithful cell cycle progression to maintain the cellular homeostasis. F‐box protein β‐TrCP1 is known to control the expression levels of several important cell cycle regulatory proteins. However, how the function of β‐TrCP1 is regulated in spatiotemporal manner during cell cycle progression remains elus ...
Arabidopsis thaliana; DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase; F-box proteins; bisulfites; constitutive photomorphogenesis 9 signalosome; genes; homeostasis; loss-of-function mutation; proteasome endopeptidase complex; quality control; transcription (genetics); two hybrid system techniques; ubiquitin-protein ligase
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... DNA methylation plays crucial roles in cellular development and stress responses through gene regulation and genome stability control. Precise regulation of DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASE 2 (DRM2), the de novo Arabidopsis DNA methyltransferase, is crucial to maintain DNA methylation homeostasis to ensure genome integrity. Compared with the extensive studies on DRM2 targeting mechanisms, litt ...
... Erigeron breviscapus is an important medicinal plant in Compositae and the first species to realize the whole process from the decoding of the draft genome sequence to scutellarin biosynthesis in yeast. However, the previous low‐quality genome assembly has hindered the optimization of candidate genes involved in scutellarin synthesis and the development of molecular‐assisted breeding based on the ...
... ABA is a phytohormone involved in diverse plant events such as seed germination and drought response. An F‐box protein functions as a substrate receptor of the SCF complex and is responsible for ubiquitination of target proteins, triggering their subsequent degradation mediated by ubiquitin proteasome system. Here, we have isolated a gene named ARABIDOPSIS F‐BOX PROTEIN HYPERSENSITIVE TO ABA 1 (AF ...