support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC:32070315);Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB27030208);No conflict of interest declared.
1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid(ACC),produced from S-adenosyl-methionine(SAM)by ACC synthase(ACS),is oxidized by ACC oxidase(ACO)to produce the gaseous plant hormone ethylene in seed plants(Kende,1993).
The genus Diaporthe comprises pathogenic,endophytic and saprobic species with both temperate and tropical distributions.Cryptic diversification,phenotypic plasticity and extensive host associations have long complicat...
supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2008ZX08001-004)
Arthrospira platensis is an economically important cyanobacterium; and it has been used widely in food and pharmaceutical industries. The phycocyanin(PC) from A. platensis is extremely valuable in medicine and molecul...
Cysteine occupies a central position in plant metabolism because it is a reduced sulfur donor moleculeinvolved in the synthesis of essential biomolecules and defense compounds. Moreover, cysteine per se and its deriva...
We thank Professor Jun-Bao Du for providing experimental suggestions and advice, and our study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30571851 to Jie Jill, No. 81201527 to Hui Guo).
We investigated the expression of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in human and rat lower urinary tract (including bladder, prostate and urethra) tissues, and we sought to determine whether H2S induces relaxation of human ...
supported by the National Key Project for Research on Transgenic Plants (2009ZX08001-017B and 2011ZX08009-003-001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30971880);the National High-tech R&D Program of China (No. 2 012AA101504);the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in the University of the Ministry of Education of China (No. IRT0943)
Sphingolipids, including sphingosine-l-phosphate (SIP), have been shown to function as signaling mediators to regulate diverse aspects of plant growth, development, and stress response. In this study, we performed f...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870519 and 30870541)
In Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421, three possible lyase genes glr1191, glr1182 and gll1188 were selected by Blast sorting. The coded proteins of these three genes were co-expressed with their substrate protein in E. c...
Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Foundation of the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China (20070001702 and 20070001770); the National Natural Science Foundation of China 81070212, 30821001, and 30801251); the Major Basic Research Development Program of the People's Republic of China (2011CB503904); and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7082095). We thank Shu-xu DU and Wei LU for their technical assis- tance.
Aim: To compare the vasorelaxing effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on isolated aortic and pulmonary artery rings and to determine their action mechanisms. Methods: H2S-induced vasorelaxation of isolated rat aortic...
The Arabidopsis FCLY gene encodes a specific farnesylcysteine (FC) lyase, which is responsible for the oxidative metabolism of FC to farnesal and cysteine. In addition, fcly mutants with quantitative decreases in FC...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30521001) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-SW-304).Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Drs Lu Liang and Yiping Tong for helpful discussion on this work and the writing of the manuscript.
Sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase (SPL) is involved in degrading the conserved sphingolipid signaling molecule sphingosine-1-phosphate. However, molecular studies on plant SPL have not been reported to date. Here, we pr...