ReviewAdvances in biological regulation2015
Inositol pyrophosphates: why so many phosphates?
Review in Advances in biological regulation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.
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- Analytical methods and tools for studying inositol phosphates.FEBS letters · 2026Review
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- Mechanistic insights into the regulation of polyphosphate polymerase VTC by the accessory subunit Vtc5.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- NUDIX hydrolases target specific inositol pyrophosphates and regulate phosphate homeostasis and bacterial pathogen susceptibility in Arabidopsis.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2025Article
- GA-independent DELLA regulation by inositol pyrophosphate in a nonvascular land plant.Nature chemical biology · 2025Article
- Conservation of heat stress acclimation by the IPK2-type kinases that control the synthesis of the inositol pyrophosphate 4/6-InsP7 in land plants.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Structural insights into the mechanism of phosphate recognition and transport by XPR1.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Using HILIC-MS/MS Method to Study Inositol Pyrophosphate.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Determination of Steady-State Inositol Phosphate Profile of the Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, Using SAX-HPLC.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Using native and synthetic genes to disrupt inositol pyrophosphates and phosphate accumulation in plants.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- Encapsulation of Inositol Hexakisphosphate with Chitosan via Gelation to Facilitate Cellular Delivery and Programmed Cell Death in Human Breast Cancer Cells.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Genome-wide association studies dissect low-phosphorus stress response genes underling field and seedling traits in maize.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2024Article
- PPIP5K2 Facilitates Proliferation and Metastasis of Non-Small Lung Cancer (NSCLC) through AKT Signaling Pathway.Cancers · 2024Article
- ITPK1 Regulates Jasmonate-Controlled Root Development inBiomolecules · 2023Article
- Expedient synthesis and luminescence sensing of the inositol pyrophosphate cellular messenger 5-PP-InsPChemical science · 2023Article
- One Scaffold, Two Conformations: The Ring-Flip of the Messenger InsPBiomolecules · 2023Article
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Abstract
The inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are a specialized group of "energetic" signaling molecules found in yeasts, plants and animals. PP-InsPs boast the most crowded three dimensional phosphate arrays found in Nature; multiple phosphates and diphosphates are crammed around the six-carbon, inositol ring. Yet, phosphate esters are also a major energy currency in cells. So the synthesis of PP-InsPs, and the maintenance of their levels in the face of a high rate of ongoing turnover, all requires significant bioenergetic input. What are the particular properties of PP-InsPs that repay this investment of cellular energy? Potential answers to that question are discussed here, against the backdrop of a recent hypothesis that signaling by PP-InsPs is evolutionarily ancient. The latter idea is extended herein, with the proposal that the primordial origins of PP-InsPs is reflected in the apparent lack of isomeric specificity of certain of their actions. Nevertheless, there are other aspects of signaling by these polyphosphates that are more selective for a particular PP-InsP isomer. Consideration of the nature of both specific and non-specific effects of PP-InsPs can help rationalize why such molecules possess so many phosphates.
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