| Edited by P. R. Shewry , Director, IACR-Long Ashton Research Station; and Professor, Department of Agricultural Science, University of Bristol, N. G. Halford , Research Scientist, IACR-Long Ashton Research Station, University of Bristol; and R. Hooley , Head of Plant Sciences Department, IACR-Long Ashton Research Station, University of Bristol.
Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation play key regulatory roles in many aspects of plant growth, development, and metabolism. These include control of cell division, pathways of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, and the transduction of metabolic, hormonal, and environmental signals. This is a rapidly expanding area of research and this book is the first attempt to cover all aspects of protein phosphorylation in plants in a single volume. It includes work from key groups at the forefront of research in the area, with studies at the biochemical, molecular, and cell biological levels. ‘It is to postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers starting a project in this area that the volume will be of most use' Phytochemistry ‘...provides an excellent overview into a new and rapidly expanding field of high significance for the control and regulation of plant metabolism. ... This valuable book can be recommended to all plant biologists and also graduate students.' Journal of Plant Physiology.
Contents: Section I: Overview of protein phosphorylation; The structure and function of the protein kinases; Section II: Control of plant metabolism; The Annals of Botany Lecture: 'Regulation of leaf sucrose-phosphate synthase and nitrate reductase by reversible protein phosphorylation'; Partitioning of photosynthetic carbon: the role of nitrate activation of protein kinases; The role of PEPC phosphorylation in the regulation of C4 photosynthesis; Protein phosphorylation and circadian rhythms; The control of light-coupled leaf metabolism by reversible protein phosphorylation; Regulation of leaf mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity by reversible phosphorylation; The role of phosphorylation in the regulation of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; Biochemical evidence for an SNF1 homologue in higher plants; Molecular and biochemical analyses of plant Snf1-related protein kinases; Protein phosphorylation in germinating seeds; Section III: Cell cycle regulation; Protein kinases in the cell cycle-an overview; Spatial and temporal control of cell division in plants; Molecular cloning of differentially expressed and cell cycle-related cDNAs in the maize root apex; Expression of CDK gene variants and p34cdc2-related protein kinase activities in synchronized alfalfa cells; Control of initiation of DNA synthesis in plants; Section IV: Signal reception and transduction; Receptor-like protein kinases; Molecular genetics of abscisic acid signal transduction: the involvement of a putative calcium-modulated protein phosphatase; Role of the CTR1 kinase in ethylene signal transduction in Arabidopsis ; Molecular and biochemical properties of calmodulin-like domain protein kinases; Plant protein phosphorylation in signal transduction and the control of development: cloning and characterization of protein kinase genes from Arabidopsis and Petunia ; Elusin: a receptor-like kinase with an EGF domain in the cell wall; Protein kinases that are expressed in oat aleurone cells; Index.
338 pages, halftones, line figures, tables, Clarendon Press, April 1996 0-19-857777-X, Hardback, was £75.00, now £56.25
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