ReviewFrontiers in plant science2024
Plant cathepsin B, a versatile protease.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Rubisco functional integrity requires a dedicated three-step maturation pathway.Science advances · 2026Article
- Psyllid Cysteine Cathepsins Directly Cleave the Outer Membrane Protein BamD of Citrus Huanglongbing Pathogen.Plant biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- Genome-wide association study of resistance to taro leaf blight and yield traits in taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Expression of a constitutively active nitrate reductase increases SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein production in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves that otherwise show traits of senescence.Plant biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- Plant caspase-like proteins: from function identification to application in winter rapeseed genetic breeding.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Genome-wide molecular characterization and expression profiling of the cysteine protease gene family in maize.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Cathepsin B- and L-like Protease Activities Are Induced During Developmental Barley Leaf Senescence.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plant proteases are essential enzymes that play key roles during crucial phases of plant life. Some proteases are mainly involved in general protein turnover and recycle amino acids for protein synthesis. Other proteases are involved in cell signalling, cleave specific substrates and are key players during important genetically controlled molecular processes. Cathepsin B is a cysteine protease that can do both because of its exopeptidase and endopeptidase activities. Animal cathepsin B has been investigated for many years, and much is known about its mode of action and substrate preferences, but much remains to be discovered about this potent protease in plants. Cathepsin B is involved in plant development, germination, senescence, microspore embryogenesis, pathogen defence and responses to abiotic stress, including programmed cell death. This review discusses the structural features, the activity of the enzyme and the differences between the plant and animal forms. We discuss its maturation and subcellular localisation and provide a detailed overview of the involvement of cathepsin B in important plant life processes. A greater understanding of the cell signalling processes involving cathepsin B is needed for applied discoveries in plant biotechnology.
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