Things to do before you die: The bucket list of a plant cell
Wang, Bollier, Buono, et al. catalog the cellular processes that occur during programmed cell death in plants.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad308
Jie Wang, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China
Moritz K. Nowack, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems…
Nuclear pore Y-complex and regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS C in Arabidopsis
Huang et al. explore the functions of the nuclear pore complex in regulating the expression of FLOWERING LOCUS C in plants.
Penghui Huang1,2†, Xiaomei Zhang2†, Zhiyuan Cheng3†
1 Research Institute of Intelligent Computing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 310012, China
2 MARA Key Laboratory of…
Autophagy regulation by HLS1-mediated acetylation
Huang et al. explore the molecular mechanism underlying the regulation of autophagy by HLS1.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad252
By Li Huang, Xing Wen, Lian Jin, Huihui Han, and Hongwei Guo
New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology,…
A single phosphorylation event alters root behavior
Siao et al. demonstrate that single phosphorylation on a protein alters root behavior in Arabidopsis.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad141
By Wei Siao and Eugenia Russinova, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Background: Plant roots react to their environment by using hormone signaling…
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…
Interdependence of subunits of the m6A methyltransferase complex
Lisha Shen uncovers unique functional interdependence at the post-translational level among individual components of the Arabidopsis m6A methyltransferase complex.
By Lisha Shen, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Background:…
How plants fine tune wax biosynthesis
Huang et al. find that a 3-KETOACYL-COA SYNTHASE negatively regulates wax biosynthesis, revealing a mechanism for fine-tuning lipid metabolism.
Haodong Huang, Xianpeng Yang, Shiyou Lü and Huayan Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University,…
A parasitic plant pushes the boundaries of microRNA biogenesis
Hudzik et al. reveal that not all microRNAs are transcribed the same way.
By Collin Hudzik1,2 and Michael J. Axtell1,2
1Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
2Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University…
Out of the haze of DNA–protein crosslink repair
Dvořák Tomaštíková et al. study the role of SMC5/6 complex in repair of toxic DNA protein crosslinks in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2023).
By Pecinka Ales and Eva Dvořák Tomaštíková
Background: Cellular DNA is constantly damaged by various internal and external factors that eventually…