The N-end rule pathway regulates protein degradation, which depends on exposed N-terminal sequences in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In plants, conserved and specific enzymes stimulate selective proteolysis. Although a number of developmental and growth phenotypes have been reported for mutants in the N-end rule, its function has remained unrelated to specific physiological pathways. The first report of the direct involvement of the N-end rule in stress responses focused on hypoxic signaling and how the oxygen-dependent oxidation of cysteine promotes the N-end rule-mediated degradation of ERF-VII proteins, the master regulators of anaerobic responses. It has been suggested that plants have evolved specific mechanisms to tune ERF-VII availability in the nucleus. In this review, we speculate that ERF-VII proteins are reversibly protected from degradation via membrane sequestration. The oxidative response in plants subjected to anoxic conditions suggests that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) might interact or interfere with the N-end rule pathway-mediated response to hypoxia

New Role for an Old Rule: N-end Rule Mediated Degradation of ERF Proteins Governs Low Oxygen Response in Plants

PUCCIARIELLO Chiara;PERATA, PIERDOMENICO MARIA;LICAUSI, FRANCESCO
2013-01-01

Abstract

The N-end rule pathway regulates protein degradation, which depends on exposed N-terminal sequences in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In plants, conserved and specific enzymes stimulate selective proteolysis. Although a number of developmental and growth phenotypes have been reported for mutants in the N-end rule, its function has remained unrelated to specific physiological pathways. The first report of the direct involvement of the N-end rule in stress responses focused on hypoxic signaling and how the oxygen-dependent oxidation of cysteine promotes the N-end rule-mediated degradation of ERF-VII proteins, the master regulators of anaerobic responses. It has been suggested that plants have evolved specific mechanisms to tune ERF-VII availability in the nucleus. In this review, we speculate that ERF-VII proteins are reversibly protected from degradation via membrane sequestration. The oxidative response in plants subjected to anoxic conditions suggests that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) might interact or interfere with the N-end rule pathway-mediated response to hypoxia
2013
Pucciariello, Chiara; Perata, PIERDOMENICO MARIA; Licausi, Francesco
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