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A pan-plant protein complex map reveals deep conservation and novel assemblies

Authors :
Oliver Xiaoou Dong
Viviana June
Stanley J. Roux
Z. Jeffrey Chen
Edward M. Marcotte
Taejoon Kwon
Ophelia Papoulas
Pamela C. Ronald
Karen S. Browning
Cuihong Wan
Kevin Drew
Mari L. Salmi
Claire D. McWhite
Rachael M. Cox
Source :
Cell, vol 181, iss 2
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2019.

Abstract

SUMMARYPlants are foundational to global ecological and economic systems, yet most plant proteins remain uncharacterized. Protein interaction networks often suggest protein functions and open new avenues to characterize genes and proteins. We therefore systematically determined protein complexes from 13 plant species of scientific and agricultural importance, greatly expanding the known repertoire of stable protein complexes in plants. Using co-fractionation mass spectrometry, we recovered known complexes, confirmed complexes predicted to occur in plants, and identified novel interactions conserved over 1.1 billion years of green plant evolution. Several novel complexes are involved in vernalization and pathogen defense, traits critical to agriculture. We also uncovered plant analogs of animal complexes with distinct molecular assemblies, including a megadalton-scale tRNA multi-synthetase complex. The resulting map offers the first cross-species view of conserved, stable protein assemblies shared across plant cells and provides a mechanistic, biochemical framework for interpreting plant genetics and mutant phenotypes.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Cell, vol 181, iss 2
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....db7891ee977a1271ca5aaa53258285eb