Actin-binding proteins in the Arabidopsis genome database: properties of functionally distinct plant actin-depolymerizing factors/cofilins - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Actin-binding proteins in the Arabidopsis genome database: properties of functionally distinct plant actin-depolymerizing factors/cofilins

Patrick J Hussey et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2002.

Abstract

The plant actin cytoskeleton is a highly dynamic, fibrous structure essential in many cellular processes including cell division and cytoplasmic streaming. This structure is stimulus responsive, being affected by internal stimuli, by biotic and abiotic stresses mediated in signal transduction pathways by actin-binding proteins. The completion of the Arabidopsis genome sequence has allowed a comparative identification of many actin-binding proteins. However, not all are conserved in plants, which possibly reflects the differences in the processes involved in morphogenesis between plant and other cells. Here we have searched for the Arabidopsis equivalents of 67 animal/fungal actin-binding proteins and show that 36 are not conserved in plants. One protein that is conserved across phylogeny is actin-depolymerizing factor or cofilin and we describe our work on the activity of vegetative tissue and pollen-specific isoforms of this protein in plant cells, concluding that they are functionally distinct.

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