Publication Date:
2004-03-06
Description:
Self-incompatibility (SI) response in Brassica is initiated by haplotype-specific interactions between the pollen-borne ligand S locus protein 11/SCR and its stigmatic S receptor kinase, SRK. This binding induces autophosphorylation of SRK, which is then thought to trigger a signaling cascade that leads to self-pollen rejection. A recessive mutation of the modifier (m) gene eliminates the SI response in stigma. Positional cloning of M has revealed that it encodes a membrane-anchored cytoplasmic serine/threonine protein kinase, designated M locus protein kinase (MLPK). Transient expression of MLPK restores the ability of mm papilla cells to reject self-pollen, suggesting that MLPK is a positive mediator of Brassica SI signaling.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Murase, Kohji -- Shiba, Hiroshi -- Iwano, Megumi -- Che, Fang-Sik -- Watanabe, Masao -- Isogai, Akira -- Takayama, Seiji -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Mar 5;303(5663):1516-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma 630-0101, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15001779" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Amino Acid Substitution
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Brassica rapa/enzymology/genetics/*physiology
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Cell Membrane/*enzymology
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Cloning, Molecular
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Cytoplasm/enzymology
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Flowers/enzymology/*physiology
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Genes, Plant
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Haplotypes
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Membrane Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Mutation
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Open Reading Frames
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Phosphorylation
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Physical Chromosome Mapping
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Plant Proteins
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Pollen/physiology
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Protein Kinases/*metabolism
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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*Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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