Post-translational regulation of sucrose transporters by direct protein-protein interactions.

ABSTRACT: Sucrose transporters are essential membrane proteins for the allocation of carbon resources in higher plants and protein-protein interactions play a crucial role in the post-translational regulation of sucrose transporters affecting affinity, transport capacity, oligomerization, localization, and trafficking. Systematic screening for protein interactors using sucrose transporters as bait proteins helped identifying several proteins binding to sucrose transporters from apple, Arabidopsis, potato, or tomato using the split ubiquitin system. This mini-review summarizes known sucrose transporter-interacting proteins and their potential function in plants. Not all of the identified interaction partners are postulated to be located at the plasma membrane, but some are predicted to be endoplasmic

SUBMITTER: Krugel U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3698446 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature