Review of protein structure-based analyses that illuminate plant stress mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Plants face formidable challenges due to environmental stresses, including pathogens, salt, drought, cold, heat, heavy metal exposure, and flooding, all of which affect growth and agricultural productivity. To combat these stresses, plants have evolved various adaptive mechanisms, including the expression of stress-response proteins. Exploring the three-dimensional structures of plant proteins can be valuable for discovering and characterising stress tolerance mechanisms at the molecular level. Until recently, large-scale analyses were not feasible due to the limited number of experimentally determined plant protein structures. However, the recently developed AlphaFold, RoseTTA-Fold, and ESM-fold protein structure prediction methods, along with their associated portals, now provide hundred

SUBMITTER: Shahid F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12302779 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature