Growth or survival: What is the role of calmodulin-like proteins in plant?

Calcium signalling, including pulse, amplitude, and duration, is essential for plant development and response to various stimuli. However, the calcium signalling should be decoded and translated by calcium sensors. In plants, three classes of calcium-binding proteins have been identified as calcium...

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Published in:International journal of biological macromolecules 2023-07, Vol.242 (Pt 1), p.124733-124733, Article 124733
Main Authors: Wang, Lixin, Liu, Zhiguo, Han, Shoukun, Liu, Ping, Sadeghnezhad, Ehsan, Liu, Mengjun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calcium
Calcium - metabolism
Calcium Signaling
Calcium-Binding Proteins - metabolism
Calmodulin - chemistry
Calmodulin-like protein
Defense
Growth
Plants - metabolism
Signalling
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Summary:Calcium signalling, including pulse, amplitude, and duration, is essential for plant development and response to various stimuli. However, the calcium signalling should be decoded and translated by calcium sensors. In plants, three classes of calcium-binding proteins have been identified as calcium sensors, including calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK), calcineurin B-like protein (CBL), and calmodulin (CaM). Calmodulin-like proteins (CMLs), which have several EF-hands, also serve as specific calcium sensors and can sense, bind, and interpret the calcium signal during the plant's growth and defense decision-making processes. In recent decades, the function of CMLs in plant development and response to various stimuli has been systematically reviewed, shedding light on the molecular mechanism of plant CML-mediated networks in calcium signal transduction. Here, by providing an overview of CML expression and biological function in plants, we demonstrate that growth-defense trade-offs occur during calcium sensing, an aspect that has not been well studied in recent years.
ISSN:0141-8130
1879-0003
DOI:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124733