F-box蛋白在植物生长发育中的功能研究进展

在真核生物中,由泛素介导的蛋白降解途径与植物生长发育密切相关。F-box蛋白家族是一类含有Fbox基序(motif),在泛素介导的蛋白质水解过程中具有底物识别特性的蛋白质家族。目前,从各种植物中已鉴定出大量的F-box蛋白质,这类蛋白质在植物激素的信号转导、光信号转导、自交不亲和以及花器官发育等许多生理过程中都具有重要功能。研究发现F-box蛋白在调控植物生长发育过程中所发挥的功能与其结构及泛素蛋白酶体途径密切相关。     

F-box蛋白参与植物逆境胁迫研究进展

F-box蛋白在植物中广泛存在,在植物生命活动中发挥重要作用.F-box蛋白通过与Skp1、Cullin和Rbx1形成Skp-Cullin-F-box(SCF)蛋白复合体,参与泛素-蛋白酶途径(ubiquitin-proteasome pathway,UPP)降解生物体中的蛋白质而发挥作用.F-box蛋白广泛参与植物对...     

F-box蛋白家族及其功能

F-box蛋白是一类广泛存在于真核生物中,含有F-box结构域的蛋白家族,在泛素-蛋白酶体途径（ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, UPP）中因特异识别底物蛋白而参与细胞周期调控、转录调控、细胞凋亡、细胞信号转导等生命活动。另外,F-box蛋白还通过其他作用方式参与了体内众多生化过程。本文综述了F-box蛋白的结构和作用途径,以及该蛋白参与的多种生理功能,展示了F-box蛋白家族在生命活动中具有广泛而重要的作用,并指出了F-box蛋白将为阐明疾病发生机制提供新的线索,可望成为疾病治疗中药物作用的靶向位点。     

调控细胞活动不可或缺的重要分子——F-box蛋白

泛素连接酶作为一种翻译后效应器,对细胞生命活动的正常运行至关重要。而泛素连接酶SCF(Skp1-Cullin-F-box protein)复合体重要组件—F-box蛋白的主要作用是对靶蛋白的特异性识别。作为许多生理病理过程的效应分子,它广泛存在于真核生物,参与了众多的细胞机制,其对底物的特异性识别是蛋白元件在特定时空功能终止的重要基础。对F-box蛋白的深入研究必将增强人们对细胞生命活动调控机制和疾病机理的理解。本文拟就F-box蛋白的结构、功能及其与疾病发生的研究进展做一综述。     

花粉特异F-box基因及其表达产物可能参与的SCF途径

泛素蛋白体目标性降解蛋白途径是许多细胞学过程的重要调节体系,底物蛋白泛素化涉及3个酶激反应,其中,作为E3连接酶的SCF复合体对底物的识别是通过亚体F-box蛋白C末端的特异性结构实现的.利用染色体步移等方法,最近在一些配子体型自交不亲和植物S-RNase基因近旁相继发现了一类花粉特异性表达的F-box基因,从而预示泛素介导的SCF蛋白降解途径可能参与配子体自交不亲和反应.     

痘病毒ANK/F-box蛋白的生物学特性及泛素化相关功能

锚蛋白重复序列(ANK)和F-box结构域蛋白是痘病毒编码的大分子蛋白家族之一,大小在400~650个氨基酸之间,其N-末端有5~10个ANK重复序列,C-末端包含与F-box结构域相类似的保守序列,具有将底物募集到细胞SCF泛素连接酶复合物上的功能。研究表明,痘病毒的大多数ANK/F-box蛋白能够与Skp1、Cul1相互作用,靶向细胞的SCF1复合物。抑制NF-κB信号通路是这些蛋白的一个重要功能。此文着重阐述了痘病毒ANK/Fbox蛋白的特征以及泛素化相关功能的研究概况。     

自体吞噬在植物生长发育中的功能

自体吞噬是一种细胞内自我降解系统,它能将植物细胞内溶物运输至液泡并降解.自体吞噬可划分为内溶物的包裹、运输至液泡、内溶物的降解和降解产物的重新利用几个连续步骤.关于细胞自体吞噬的认识主要来源于酵母、人类、小鼠、果蝇和线虫等生物,以拟南芥等为代表的植物细胞自体吞噬的研究虽然刚刚开始,但也取得了一些标志性的成果,且近十几年来已迅速成为植物研究领域的热点之一.自体吞噬在植物体内具有多种生理和病理作用,如对饥饿的适应、细胞内蛋白质和细胞器的清除、种子中贮藏蛋白的积累、抵制微生物、细胞死亡和胁迫响应等.本文在介绍自体吞噬形成过程的基础上,着重探讨了自体吞噬在植物生长发育中的功能,并对植物中自体吞噬的研究方向进行了展望.     

F-box蛋白COI1稳定性调控机制

拟南芥F-box蛋白COI1(Coronatine insensitive 1)与ASK1(Arabidopsis serine/Threonine kinase 1)蛋白及CUL1(CULLIN1)蛋白等结合形成SCFCOI1泛素连接酶复合体.COI1感知茉莉素信号、进而调控植物一系列的防御反应和生长发育过程.虽然多种作物的COI1同源蛋白已经被相继鉴定,但是其自身蛋白水平的调控机制仍然未知.本文重点研究了蔬菜作物番茄(Solanum lycopersicum)和经济作物烟草(Nicotiana attenuata)中COI1蛋白稳定性的调控机制.结果证明,这两种作物的COI1蛋白通过与ASK1的相互作用而得到稳定,表明形成SCFCOI1复合体可能有助于COI1蛋白的稳定.同时,26S蛋白酶体抑制剂能够明显抑制COI1的降解,说明泛素-蛋白酶体途径参与了其降解过程.这些结果证明在这两个不同物种中,两条互相拮抗的途径共同发挥作用,平衡并稳定COI1蛋白在细胞内的恰当丰度.该研究为深入研究不同作物的茉莉素信号转导调控机制奠定了良好的基础.     

蛋白质的选择性降解机制——2004年诺贝尔化学奖部分工作介绍

如何识别和选择性降解蛋白质是细胞生命过程中的重要环节.泛素-蛋白酶体需能降解途径的发现,揭示了蛋白质在细胞内选择性降解的普遍方式.对于需要清除的蛋白质,通过其赖氨酸残基侧链ε-氨基连接多聚泛素链（降解标签）,继而在蛋白酶体中被降解.这种选择性降解机制对于维持蛋白质在细胞内含量的动态平衡起到了关键性作用.     

F-box蛋白家族的功能研究进展

F-box蛋白是一类含有F-box基序(motif),在泛素介导的蛋白质水解过程中具有底物识别特性的蛋白质家族.这类蛋白质在细胞时相转换、信号传导、发育等多种生理过程中都具有重要功能.     

Roles of F-box proteins in plant hormone responses

The F-box protein is an important component of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Skpl-Cullin-F-box protein complex. It binds specific substrates for ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. The F-box proteins contain a signature F-box motif at their amino-terminus and some protein-protein interaction motifs at their carboxyterminus, such as Trp-Asp repeats or leucine rich repeats. Many F-box proteins have been identified to be involved in plant hormone response as receptors or important medial components. These breakthrough findings shed light on our current understanding of the structure and function of the various F-box proteins, their related plant hormone signaling pathways, and their roles in regulating plant development.     

CFL-1, a novel F-box protein with leucine-rich repeat may interact with UNC-10 for the regulation of defecation and daumone response in Caenorhabditis elegans

Previously we reported that CFL-1, the single LRR-type F-box protein in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome, affected defecation behavior and daumone response. CFL-1 is highly homologous to the FBXL20 in mammals, which regulates synaptic vesicle release by targeting its substrate Rim1 for ubiquitin-mediated degradation. The worm homolog of Rim1 is UNC-10, a presynaptic membrane protein that triggers synaptic vesicle fusion through interaction with RAB-3 GTPase. To examine if CFL-1 exerts its modulatory effect on the defecation and daumone response via ubiquitination of UNC-10, we performed RNAi knock-down of CFL-1 in the unc-10(e102) mutant background. We noticed additive increase in defecation interval when the activities of both CFL-1 and UNC-10 were compromised. Also, the degree of dauer formation upon daumone treatment in unc-10 mutants treated with CFL-1 RNAi decreased further than the level observed in untreated mutants or wild type N2 worms with CFL-1 RNAi knock-down. Our data suggest that CFL-1 affects defecation frequency and daumone response in C. elegans through the ubiquitination of UNC-10.     

Isolation and characterization of a novel F-box protein Pof10 in fission yeast

The SCF complex is a type of ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3) that consists of invariable components, including Skp1, Cdc53/Cul1, and Rbx1, as well as variable components known as F-box proteins. Using a yeast two-hybrid system, we isolated six proteins that interact with Schizosaccharomyces pombe Skp1. Among them, Pof10 is a novel F-box protein consisting of 662 amino acids, harboring the F-box domain required for the binding to Skp1 and followed by four WD40 repeats. Overexpression of Pof10 in fission yeast resulted in loss of viability with marked morphological changes that are similar to those in pop1 mutant yeast. Coexpression of Skp1 with Pof10 prevented the lethality, suggesting that the lethality from Pof10 overexpression results from the sequestration of Skp1 from other F-box proteins including Pop1. Whereas most F-box proteins show rapid turnover, Pof10 has a remarkably long half-life in vivo and has been shown to be localized predominantly in cytoplasm. These results suggest that the stable F-box protein Pof10 might target abundant cytoplasmic proteins for degradation in fission yeast.     

Plant F-box Proteins – Judges between Life and Death

Selective protein degradation through the ubiquitin–26S proteasome system is a key mechanism for post-translational control of regulatory proteins in all eukaryotes. The pivotal components in this system are the multi-subunit E3 Ub-ligase enzymes responsible for specific recognition and ubiquitination of degradation targets. In this review, we focus on plant F-box proteins which confer specificity to the SCF-type E3 enzyme complexes. F-box proteins represent one of the largest and most heterogeneous superfamilies in plants, with hundreds of different representatives exposing an extensive variability of C-terminal target-binding domains, and as such, modulating almost every aspect of plant growth and development. Since the first reports on plant F-box proteins over a decade ago, a lot of progress has been made in our understanding of their relevance for plant physiology. In this review, we combine well-established knowledge with the most recent advances related to plant F-box proteins and their role in plant development, hormone signaling and defense pathways. We also elaborate on the yet poorly described carbohydrate-binding plant F-box proteins presumably targeting glycoproteins for proteasomal degradation.