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Multiple Actin Isotypes in Plants: Diverse Genes for Diverse Roles?

Plant actins are encoded by a gene family. Despite the crucial significance of the actin cytoskeleton for plant structure and function, the importance of individual actin isotypes and their specific roles in various plant tissues or even single cells is rather poorly understood. This review summariz...

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Autores principales: Šlajcherová, Kateřina, Fišerová, Jindřiška, Fischer, Lukáš, Schwarzerová, Kateřina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091476
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2012.00226
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author Šlajcherová, Kateřina
Fišerová, Jindřiška
Fischer, Lukáš
Schwarzerová, Kateřina
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description Plant actins are encoded by a gene family. Despite the crucial significance of the actin cytoskeleton for plant structure and function, the importance of individual actin isotypes and their specific roles in various plant tissues or even single cells is rather poorly understood. This review summarizes our current knowledge about the plant actin gene family including its evolution, gene and protein structure, and the expression profiles and regulation. Based on this background information, we review mutant and complementation analyses in Arabidopsis to draw an emerging picture of overlapping and specific roles of plant actin isotypes. Finally, we examine hypotheses explaining the mechanisms of isotype-specific functions.
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spelling pubmed-34698772012-10-22 Multiple Actin Isotypes in Plants: Diverse Genes for Diverse Roles? Šlajcherová, Kateřina Fišerová, Jindřiška Fischer, Lukáš Schwarzerová, Kateřina Front Plant Sci Plant Science Plant actins are encoded by a gene family. Despite the crucial significance of the actin cytoskeleton for plant structure and function, the importance of individual actin isotypes and their specific roles in various plant tissues or even single cells is rather poorly understood. This review summarizes our current knowledge about the plant actin gene family including its evolution, gene and protein structure, and the expression profiles and regulation. Based on this background information, we review mutant and complementation analyses in Arabidopsis to draw an emerging picture of overlapping and specific roles of plant actin isotypes. Finally, we examine hypotheses explaining the mechanisms of isotype-specific functions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3469877/ /pubmed/23091476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2012.00226 Text en Copyright © 2012 Šlajcherová, Fišerová, Fischer and Schwarzerová. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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Šlajcherová, Kateřina
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Fischer, Lukáš
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title Multiple Actin Isotypes in Plants: Diverse Genes for Diverse Roles?
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title_fullStr Multiple Actin Isotypes in Plants: Diverse Genes for Diverse Roles?
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title_short Multiple Actin Isotypes in Plants: Diverse Genes for Diverse Roles?
title_sort multiple actin isotypes in plants: diverse genes for diverse roles?
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469877/
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