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ReviewPlant & cell physiology2010

Molecular basis of the core regulatory network in ABA responses: sensing, signaling and transport.

Taishi Umezawa, Kazuo Nakashima, Takuya Miyakawa, Takashi Kuromori, Masaru Tanokura, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

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Review in Plant & cell physiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 415 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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415citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

415 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 940 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Taishi UmezawaGene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, 3-1-1 Kouyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0074 Japan.
Kazuo Nakashima
Takuya Miyakawa
Takashi Kuromori
Masaru Tanokura
Kazuo Shinozaki
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JPJapan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ABA is a major phytohormone that regulates a broad range of plant traits and is especially important for adaptation to environmental conditions. Our understanding of the molecular basis of ABA responses in plants improved dramatically in 2009 and 2010, banner years for ABA research. There are three major components; PYR/PYL/ RCAR (an ABA receptor), type 2C protein phosphatase (PP2C; a negative regulator) and SNF1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2; a positive regulator), and they offer a double negative regulatory system, [PYR/PYL/RCAR-| PP2C-| SnRK2]. In the absence of ABA, PP2C inactivates SnRK2 by direct dephosphorylation. In response to environmental or developmental cues, ABA promotes the interaction of PYR/PYL/RCAR and PP2C, resulting in PP2C inhibition and SnRK2 activation. This signaling complex can work in both the nucleus and cytosol, as it has been shown that SnRK2 phosphorylates basic-domain leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors or membrane proteins. Several structural analyses of PYR/PYL/RCAR have provided the mechanistic basis for this 'core signaling' model, by elucidating the mechanism of ABA binding of receptors, or the 'gate-latch-lock' mechanism of interaction with PP2C in inhibiting activity. On the other hand, intercellular ABA transport had remained a major issue, as had intracellular ABA signaling. Recently, two plasma membrane-type ABC transporters were identified and shed light on the influx/efflux system of ABA, resolving how ABA is transported from cell to cell in plants. Our knowledge of ABA responses in plants has been greatly expanded from intracellular signaling to intercellular transport of ABA.

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Signal TransductionAbscisic AcidBiological TransportAbscisic Acid

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PMCPMC2978318
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