Why Do Plants Convert Sitosterol to Stigmasterol?

A direct role for cholesterol signaling in mammals is clearly established; yet, the direct role in signaling for a plant sterol or sterol precursor is unclear. Fluctuations in sitosterol and stigmasterol levels during development and stress conditions suggest their involvement in signaling activitie...

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Autores principales: Aboobucker, Siddique I., Suza, Walter P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Plant Science
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984220
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00354
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description A direct role for cholesterol signaling in mammals is clearly established; yet, the direct role in signaling for a plant sterol or sterol precursor is unclear. Fluctuations in sitosterol and stigmasterol levels during development and stress conditions suggest their involvement in signaling activities essential for plant development and stress compensation. Stigmasterol may be involved in gravitropism and tolerance to abiotic stress. The isolation of stigmasterol biosynthesis mutants offers a promising tool to test the function of sterol end products in signaling responses to developmental and environmental cues.
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spelling pubmed-64476902019-04-12 Why Do Plants Convert Sitosterol to Stigmasterol? Aboobucker, Siddique I. Suza, Walter P. Front Plant Sci Plant Science A direct role for cholesterol signaling in mammals is clearly established; yet, the direct role in signaling for a plant sterol or sterol precursor is unclear. Fluctuations in sitosterol and stigmasterol levels during development and stress conditions suggest their involvement in signaling activities essential for plant development and stress compensation. Stigmasterol may be involved in gravitropism and tolerance to abiotic stress. The isolation of stigmasterol biosynthesis mutants offers a promising tool to test the function of sterol end products in signaling responses to developmental and environmental cues. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6447690/ /pubmed/30984220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00354 Text en Copyright © 2019 Aboobucker and Suza. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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