Recent Advances in Substrate Identification of Protein Kinases in Plants and Their Role in Stress Management

Title:Recent Advances in Substrate Identification of Protein Kinases in Plants and Their Role in Stress Management

Volume: 18 Issue: 6

Author(s): Saroj K. Jha, Shikha Malik, Manisha Sharma, Amita Pandey and Girdhar K. Pandey*

Affiliation:

• Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110021,India

Keywords: Kinase, Post-translational modification, Phosphorylation, Signal transduction, Substrate identification, Stress management.

Abstract: Protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation is a well-known regulatory mechanism in biological systems and has become one of the significant means of protein function regulation, modulating most of the biological processes. Protein kinases play vital role in numerous cellular processes. Kinases transduce external signal into responses such as growth, immunity and stress tolerance through phosphorylation of their target proteins. In order to understand these cellular processes at the molecular level, one needs to be aware of the different substrates targeted by protein kinases. Advancement in tools and techniques has bestowed practice of multiple approaches that enable target identification of kinases. However, so far none of the methodologies has been proved to be as good as a panacea for the substrate identification. In this review, the recent advances that have been made in the identifications of putative substrates and the implications of these kinases and their substrates in stress management are discussed.

Cite this article as:

Jha K. Saroj, Malik Shikha, Sharma Manisha, Pandey Amita and Pandey K. Girdhar*, Recent Advances in Substrate Identification of Protein Kinases in Plants and Their Role in Stress Management, Current Genomics 2017; 18 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389202918666170228142703