Cleave and Unleash: Metacaspases Prepare Peps for Work. Academic Article

abstract

• Plant elicitor peptide 1 (Pep1) is a versatile immune modulator that is involved in plant defense against herbivores and pathogens. A recent study (Hander et al., Science, 2019) has uncovered that Arabidopsis thaliana Pep1 is released from the C-terminus of the tonoplast-resident precursor protein, PROPEP1, by Ca2+-activated metacaspases upon cell membrane rupture in damaged tissues.

authors

• He, Ping

published proceedings

• Trends Plant Sci

author list (cited authors)

• Hou, S., Yin, C., & He, P.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Hou, Shuguo||Yin, Chuanchun||He, Ping

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Trends in Plant Science  Journal

keywords

• Arabidopsis
• Arabidopsis Proteins
• Calcium
• Herbivory
• Metacaspase
• Peptides
• Plant Elicitor Peptide 1 (pep1)
• Plant Immunity
• Wounding

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.010

start page

• 787

end page

• 790

volume

• 24

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.010