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Towards a Functional Dissection of Thioredoxin Networks in Plant Cells †
Author(s) -
Hisabori Toru,
Motohashi Ken,
HosoyaMatsuda Naomi,
UeokaNakanishi Hanayo,
Romano Patrick G. N.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1562/2006-02-27-ir-816
Subject(s) - thioredoxin , computational biology , biology , function (biology) , microbiology and biotechnology , enzyme , biochemistry
Thioredoxins are a ubiquitous family of redox equivalent mediators, long considered to possess a limited number of target enzymes. Recent progress in proteomic research has allowed the identification of a wide variety of candidate proteins with which this small protein may interact in vivo . Moreover, the activity of thioredoxin itself has been recently found to be subject to regulation by posttranslational modifications, adding an additional level of complexity to the function of this intriguing enzyme family. The current review charts the technical progress made in the continuing discovery of the numerous and diverse roles played by these proteins in the regulation of redox networks in plant cells.