F-box proteins in flowering plants

作     者：Hongyun Wang Jian Huang Zhao Lai Yongbiao Xue 

作者机构：Chinese Acad Sci Inst Genet & Dev Biol Beijing 100080 Peoples R China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (中国科学通报)

年 卷 期：2002年第47卷第18期

页      面：1497-1501页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39825103) the Chinese Academy of Sciences 

主　　题：SCF complex F-box protein proteolysis auxin signal transduction. 

摘      要：In eukaryotes, the ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation pathway has been shown to control several key biological processes such as cell division, development, metabolism and immune response. F-box proteins, as a part of SCF (Skp1-Cullin (or Cdc53)-F-box) complex, functioned by interacting with substrate proteins, leading to their subsequent degradation by the 26S proteasome. To date, several F-box proteins identified in Arabidopsis and Antirrhinum have been shown to play important roles in auxin signal transduction, floral organ formation, flowering and leaf senescence. Arabidopsis genome sequence analysis revealed that it encodes over 1000 predicted F-box proteins accounting for about 5% of total predicted proteins. These results indicate that the ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation involving the F-box proteins is an important mechanism controlling plant gene expression. Here, we review the known F-box proteins and their functions in flowering plants.