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ArticlePlant, cell & environment2023

Acquisition of hypoxia inducibility by oxygen sensing N-terminal cysteine oxidase in spermatophytes.

Daan A Weits, Lina Zhou, Beatrice Giuntoli, Laura Dalle Carbonare, Sergio Iacopino, Luca Piccinini, Lara Lombardi, Vinay Shukla, Liem T Bui, Giacomo Novi and 2 more

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Article in Plant, cell & environment, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 4 institutions in 6 countries.

Daan A WeitsInstitute of Biology 1, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Lina ZhouInstitute of Biology 1, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Beatrice GiuntoliInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4968-4071
Laura Dalle CarbonareInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Sergio IacopinoInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Luca PiccininiInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Lara LombardiDepartment of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Vinay ShuklaInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Liem T BuiInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Giacomo NoviInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Joost T van DongenInstitute of Biology 1, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Francesco LicausiInstitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4769-441X
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna · ITUniversity of Pisa · ITNorthwestern Polytechnical University · CNRWTH Aachen University · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-terminal cysteine oxidases (NCOs) use molecular oxygen to oxidise the amino-terminal cysteine of specific proteins, thereby initiating the proteolytic N-degron pathway. To expand the characterisation of the plant family of NCOs (plant cysteine oxidases [PCOs]), we performed a phylogenetic analysis across different taxa in terms of sequence similarity and transcriptional regulation. Based on this survey, we propose a distinction of PCOs into two main groups. A-type PCOs are conserved across all plant species and are generally unaffected at the messenger RNA level by oxygen availability. Instead, B-type PCOs appeared in spermatophytes to acquire transcriptional regulation in response to hypoxia. The inactivation of two A-type PCOs in Arabidopsis thaliana, PCO4 and PCO5, is sufficient to activate the anaerobic response in young seedlings, whereas the additional removal of B-type PCOs leads to a stronger induction of anaerobic genes and impairs plant growth and development. Our results show that both PCO types are required to regulate the anaerobic response in angiosperms. Therefore, while it is possible to distinguish two clades within the PCO family, we conclude that they all contribute to restrain the anaerobic transcriptional programme in normoxic conditions and together generate a molecular switch to toggle the hypoxic response.

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Cysteine DioxygenaseOxygenCysteineHypoxiaPhylogenyCysteineCysteine DioxygenaseOxygencysteine oxidationhypoxiaN-degron pathwayoxygen sensingplant evolutionregulation of gene expression

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PMID36120894
PMCPMC10092093
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