Proteomic characterization of iron deficiency responses in Cucumis sativus L. roots.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Iron deficiency induces in Strategy I plants physiological, biochemical and molecular modifications capable to increase iron uptake from the rhizosphere. This effort needs a reorganization of metabolic pathways to efficiently sustain activities linked to the acquisition of iron; in fact, carbohydrates and the energetic metabolism has been shown to be involved in these responses. The aim of this work was to find both a confirmation of the already expected change in the enzyme concentrations induced in cucumber root tissue in response to iron deficiency as well as to find new insights on the involvement of other pathways.

Results

The proteome pattern of soluble cytosolic proteins extracted from roots was obtained by 2-DE. Of about two thousand spots found, only thos

SUBMITTER: Donnini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3016405 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature