Abiotic stresses including salinity are the major limiting factors of growth and crop production worldwide. Microbial endophytes as the most important soil microorganisms, by modifying plants at genetical, physiological and ecological levels increase their yield per area unit and provide the possibility of crop production in saline and arid soils or climates with biotic and abiotic stresses. Th...

Abiotic stresses including salinity are the major limiting factors of growth and crop production worldwide. Microbial endophytes as the most important soil microorganisms, by modifying plants at genetical, physiological and ecological levels increase their yield per area unit and provide the possibility of crop production in saline and arid soils or climates with biotic and abiotic stresses. Th...

PURPOSE The extent of palmitate uptake by hepatocytes is dependent upon the surface charge of the extracellular binding protein. Specifically, hepatocyte uptake is greater when palmitate is bound to cationic binding proteins than when it is bound to anionic proteins. To further understand the role of protein surface charge on the uptake process of protein-bound ligands, we examined the rate of ...

Redox-based post-translational modifications (PTMs) involving protein cysteine residues as redox sensors are important to various physiological processes. However, little is known about redox-sensitive proteins in guard cells and their functions stomatal immunity. In this study, we applied an integrative labeling method cysTMTRAQ, identified cell that were altered by thiol PTMs response a bacte...

An initial step in reverse cholesterol transport is the movement of unesterified cholesterol from peripheral cells to high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). This transfer usually occurs in extracellular spaces, such as the subendothelial space of a vessel wall, and is promoted by the interaction of lipid-free or lipid-poor apolipoprotein (apo)AI with ATP binding cassette A1 cellular transporters on ...

Abstract Transcriptomic changes in plants during drought stress give insights into the mechanisms with which stabilise their metabolic processes order to cope condition. In potato, understanding such drought-induced transcriptomic is critical because prolonged field interferes tuber formation and bulking period of potato development, eventually affects yield. We hypothesised that phenotypic res...

The standard model of heterotrimeric G protein signaling postulates a dissociation of Galpha and Gbetagamma subunits after activation. We hypothesized that the different combination of lipid-modifications on Galpha and Galphabetagamma subunits directs them into different microdomains. By characterizing rapidly and at high sensitivity 38 fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) pairs of het...

Zantedeschia aethiopica is an evergreen perennial plant cultivated worldwide and commonly used for ornamental and medicinal purposes including the treatment of bacterial infections. However, the current understanding of molecular and physiological mechanisms in this plant is limited, in comparison to other non-model plants. In order to improve understanding of the biology of this botanical spec...