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Towards understanding peroxisomal phosphoregulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Main conclusion This work identifies new protein phosphatases and phosphatase-related proteins targeting peroxisomes, and raises the question of a...
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Two members of unassigned type of short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily (SDR) isolated from Persicaria minor show response towards ABA and drought stress
Alcohol dehydrogenases exist as a multigene family. Two isogenes, PmADHa and PmADHb were obtained from Persicaria minor via RACE-PCR were highly...
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Bioenergy: Plants and Products
Agricultural ethanol has not been an optional fuel for petrol due to a big difference in prices. Nowadays purposefulness of develo** alternative...
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Molecular and Functional Characterization of Monodehydro-ascorbate and Dehydroascorbate Reductases
When ascorbate (AsA) plays a role in cells as an antioxidant or a substrate for some enzymes including ascorbate peroxidase (APX), it is primarily...
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The ancestors of diatoms evolved a unique mitochondrial dehydrogenase to oxidize photorespiratory glycolate
Like other oxygenic photosynthetic organisms, diatoms produce glycolate, a toxic intermediate, as a consequence of the oxygenase activity of Rubisco....
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Evolutionary loss of peroxisomes – not limited to parasites
BackgroundPeroxisomes are ubiquitous eukaryotic organelles that compartmentalize a variety of metabolic pathways that are primarily related to the...
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Identification of a member of the catalase multigene family on wheat chromosome 7A associated with flour b* colour and biological significance of allelic variation
Carotenoids (especially lutein) are known to be the pigment source for flour b* colour in bread wheat. Flour b* colour variation is controlled by a...
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The Peroxisomal Exportomer
Peroxisomes are ubiquitous cell organelles of eukaryotic cells. Depending on environmental changes and cellular demands, peroxisomes display a high...
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A set of GFP-based organelle marker lines combined with DsRed-based gateway vectors for subcellular localization study in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
In the post-genomic era, many useful tools have been developed to accelerate the investigation of gene functions. Fluorescent proteins have been...
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Systems-level organization of yeast methylotrophic lifestyle
BackgroundSome yeasts have evolved a methylotrophic lifestyle enabling them to utilize the single carbon compound methanol as a carbon and energy...
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Plant Molecular Adaptations and Strategies Under Drought Stress
Climate change is a major global concern that can make agriculture even more risk prone, especially in the develo** world. The water deficit of...
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Mitochondrial Lon protease at the crossroads of oxidative stress, ageing and cancer
Lon protease is a nuclear DNA-encoded mitochondrial enzyme highly conserved throughout evolution, involved in the degradation of damaged and oxidized...
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Understanding the Functions of Peroxisomal Proteins: The Peroxisomal Proteome, Peroxisomal Import, Proteases and Other Protein Families and Their Network Organization: What Has Computational Biology Contributed?
Computational studies based on high-throughput experimental datasets, some of which were even not generated in the context of peroxisome research,...
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Yarrowia lipolytica: recent achievements in heterologous protein expression and pathway engineering
The oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has become a recognized system for expression/secretion of heterologous proteins. This non-conventional...
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Plant Peroxisomes: Protein Import, Dynamics, and Metabolite Transport
Peroxisomes are small organelles that play pivotal roles in a variety of metabolic processes in eukaryotic cells. In plants, peroxisomes are...
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The Matrix Protein Import Complex in Yeast
Nearly all peroxisomal matrix proteins contain specific peroxisomal targeting signals (PTS1 or PTS2) that are posttranslationally recognized and...
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Knockdown of Pex11β reveals its pivotal role in regulating peroxisomal genes, numbers, and ROS levels in Xenopus laevis A6 cells
Peroxisomes are organelles that are ubiquitously found in all eukaryotic cells. Enzymes within their lumen are responsible for a variety of processes...
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Calmodulin-like protein AtCML3 mediates dimerization of peroxisomal processing protease AtDEG15 and contributes to normal peroxisome metabolism
Matrix enzymes are imported into peroxisomes and glyoxysomes, a subclass of peroxisomes involved in lipid mobilization. Two peroxisomal targeting...
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A Question of Balance: Free Radicals and Cochlear Homeostasis
The cochlea features multiple epithelia with a host of cell types, all of which must work together to support transduction. They achieve this by...