Inducible Plant Proteins: Their Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

by John L. Wray

Overview

In this text, leading researchers discuss the role that inducible proteins play in cellular metabolism and the approaches being used to delineate the underlying molecular events that lead to their synthesis. The use of both classical methods such as protein purification and characterization, as well as molecular methods such as the use of antisense DNA to down-regulate the synthesis of specific target enzymes, as approaches to investigate the role particular enzymes play in cellular metabolism are discussed. Other chapters discuss molecular approaches to the study of gene expression, the identification and characterization of trans-acting transcription factors and attempts to dissect other parts of the signal transduction pathway by the search for pathway mutants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521401708
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/23/1992
Series:	Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series , #49
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Metal-binding proteins and metal-regulated gene expression in higher plants A. B. Tomsett, A. K. Sewell, S. J. Jones, J. R. de Miranda and D. A. Thurman; 2. Phosphate starvation inducible enzymes and proteins in higher plants A. H. Goldstein; 3. Nitrate reduction in higher plants: molecular approaches to function and regulation P. Rouzé and M. Caboche; 4. Inducibility of the glutamine synthetase gene family in phaseolus vulgaris L. J. V. Cullimore, J. M. Cock, T. J. Daniel, L. R. Swarup and M. J. Bennett; 5. Expression and manipulation of genes involved in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis W. Schuch; 6. Biochemistry and molecular biology of CAM H. J. Bohnert, D. M. Vernon, E. J. De Rocher, C. B. Michalowski and J. C. Cushman; 7. ABA- and GA-responsive gene expression F. L. Olsen, K. Skriver, F. Müller-Uri, N. V. Raikhel, J. C. Rogers and J. Mundy; 8. Regulation of gene expression, ethylene synthesis and ripening in transgenic tomatoes D. Grierson, A. J. Hamilton, M. Bouzayen, M. Köck, G. W. Lychett and S. Barton; 9. Induction of nodulin genes and root nodule symbiosis D. P. S. Verma and G.-H. Miao; 10. Systemic acquired resistance: an inducible defence mechanism in plants J. Ryals, E. Ward, P. Ahl-Goy and J. P. Metraux; 11. Biochemistry and molecular biology of the anaerobic response E. S. Dennis, M. Olive, R. Dolferus, A. Millar, W. J. Peacock and T. L. Setter; 12. The heat shock response in transgenic plants: the use of chimaeric heat shock genes F. Schöffl, V. Diedring, M. Kliem, M. Rieping, G. Schröder and K. Severin; 13. Biochemistry and molecular biology of cold-inducible enzymes and proteins in higher plants L. Cattivelli and D. Bartels; 14. GBF-1, GBF-2 and GBF-3: three arabidopsis b-zip proteins that interact with the light-regulated rbcs-1A promoter U. Schindler, A. E. Menekens and A. R. Cashmore; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...can serve as a guide to graduate students, to researchers and to teachers of advanced courses in plant biology." Moshe Reuveni, Plant Science Bulletin

"Graduate students and researchers in plant physiology and biochemistry will find this work a useful summary and a framework for appreciating the basis of current studies attempting to correlate changes ranging from gene expression, as affected by specific external and internal environmental factors, to the biochemistry and molecular biology of the adaptation of plants as they grow in hostile environments." The Quarterly Review of Biology

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