Turnover of Complex I is regulated by FTSH3 that recognises the PSST subunit
Ghifari et al. explore the mechanisms of Complex I disassembly and turnover.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad128
Abi S. Ghifari and Monika W Murcha
School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Background: Oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is the central process of…
Enhanced discovery of plant RNA-binding proteins
Zhang, Zu, et al. develop a method to identify RNA-binding proteins that bind poly(A) and non-poly(A) RNAs.
Yong Zhang and Devinder Sandhu; University of California Riverside and US Salinity Laboratory (USDA-ARS), Riverside, CA, USA
Background: RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are important for controlling…
The catalytic domain of cellulose synthase: More than just cellulose biosynthesis
Huang et al. demonstrate that the conserved catalytic domain of cellulose synthase 6 (CESA6) is involved in trafficking, protein dynamics, and complex formation. The Plant Cell (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad110
Lei Huang,1,2 Weiwei Zhang,1,3 Xiaohui Li,1,2 and Christopher J. Staiger1,2,3
1Department…
Blue light, PAS/LOV photoreceptor and GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase (GGP): the Triumvirate controlling ascorbic acid biosynthesis in plants
Bournonville et al. explore which factors control ascorbic acid biosynthesis in plants and its accumulation in fruits.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad108
Céline Bournonville, Bayer SAS, 1050 Route de Pardies, 40300 Peyrehorade, France
Kentaro Mori, Université Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR Biologie…
PRC1 shapes local and long-range interactions in the Arabidopsis genome
Yin, Romero-Campero, Yang, et al. identify CDs in the Arabidopsis genome and investigate the role of PRC1 in 3D structure.
Xiaochang Yin1, Francisco J. Romero-Campero2 3, Minqi Yang1, Myriam Calonje2, Yue Zhou1
1State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agricultural…
Carbon trafficking in green algae
Huang and Krishnan et al. investigate photoassimilate export in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
By Weichao Huang1 and Arthur Grossman2
1Current position: Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China
1Previous position: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie…
Sending out a salt-related SOS: transcriptional regulation of salt stress responses
Lu et al. explore the roles of a Mediator complex subunit and a WRKY transcription factor in regulating the salt-responsive gene SOS1.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad105
Background: Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that severely affects plant growth and development. Plants…
Cryptophyte PSI–LHCI supercomplexes: understanding the structural diversity and evolution of PSI–LHCI in the red lineage
Zhao, Wang, Li, et al. explore how the photosynthetic apparatus evolved in the cryptophyte Chroomonas placoidea, which is related to red algae.
Long-Sheng Zhao1 and Lu-Ning Liu2.
1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
2Institute of Systems, Molecular…
The importance of being in the right place to respond to light cues
Lopez Vazquez et al explore the importance of protein sub-cellular localization by determining how a protein modulating light responses gets to the right place within the cell.
Christian Fankhauser, Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Génopode Building, University of…