Transferase in plants

Marrs, K.A., The functions and regulation of glutathione S-transferases in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol Plant Mol. Biol, 47, 127, 1996. 

UDP-Glc is the principal sugar nucleotide and UTP Glc 1-P uridylyltransferase is the major sugar nucleotide transferase in plant tissues (Feingold, 1982). Apart from its role in the SNOP, the transferase functions as glycosyl donor to sucrose, starch, callose, and cellulose (Hopper and Dickinson, 1972 Schlupmann et al., 1994 Tenhaken and Thulke, 1996). UDP-Glc inhibits this... 

Wadleigh RW, Yu SJ (1988) Detoxification of iso thiocyanate allelochemicals by glutathione transferase in three lepidopterous species. J Chem Ecol 14 1279-1288 Werck-Reichhart D, Feyereisen R (2000) Cytochromes P450 a success story. Genome Biol 1 1-9 Williams AB, Jacobs RS (1993) A marine natural product, patellamide D, reverses multidrug resistance in a human leukemic cell line. Cancer Lett 71 97-102 Yazaki K (2006) ABC transporters involved in the transport of plant secondary metabolites. FEBS Lett 580 1183-1191... 

Yu SJ (1982) Host plant induction of glutathione S-transferases in the fall armyworm. Pestic Biochem Physiol 19 101-106... 

Yu SJ (1989) Purification and characterization of gluathione S-transferase from five phytophagous Lepidoptera. Pestic Biochem Physiol 35 97-105 Yu SJ (1992) Plant allelochemical-adapted glutathione transferases in Lepidoptera. In Mullin CA, Scott JG (eds) Molecular mechanisms of resistance to herbivorous pests to natural, synthetic and bioengineering control agents. Plenum, New York, pp 174-190 Yu SJ (1996) Insect glutathione S-transferases. Zool Stud 35 9-19... 

Other electron transferases include the rubredoxin and ferredoxin iron-sulfur proteins, so named because they contain iron-sulfur clusters of various sizes. Rubredoxins are found in anaerobic bacteria and contain iron ligated to four cysteine sulfurs. Ferredoxins are found in plant chloroplasts and mammalian tissue and contain spin-coupled [2Fe-2S] clusters. Further discussion of rubredoxin and ferredoxin proteins can be found in Chapters 6 and 7 of reference 15, and cytochromes will be extensively discussed in Chapter 7 of this text. 

Anderson, M.R and J.W. Gronwald (1991). Atrazine resistance in a velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) biotype due to enhanced glutathione 5-transferase activity. Plant Physiol., 96 104-109. 

The patatin family consists of various glycoproteins in plants making up more than 40% of the total soluble protein in potato tubers. Patatins serve as storage proteins and it has been demonstrated that they exhibit both lipid acyl hydrolase and acetyl transferase activities, which might be involved in tissue wounding responses. Further, recent studies report on antioxidant activities of the major potato allergen Sola t 1 (Seppala et al. 2000). 

C. acuminata aqueous extract modified 12 proteins in tomato roots, decreasing the majority of them. The 23 amino acids of the N-terminal of protein 5 of tomato (37.5 kDa, 100% increase) showed 95% similarity to the glutathione S-transferases of other Solanaceae. In plants, GSTs play roles in normal cellular metabolism, as well as in the detoxification of a wide variety of toxic compounds. GSTs have been involved in numerous stress responses, including pathogen... 

Wurtele, E.S., Thayer, S.S. and Corm, E.E. (1982) Subcellular localization of a UDP-glucose aldehyde cyanohydrin (i-glucosyl transferase in epidermal plastids of Sorghum leaf blades. Plant Physiol, 10,1732-7. 

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