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SUBMITTER: Khanna R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4153439 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khanna Rajnish R Li Junlin J Tseng Tong-Seung TS Schroeder Julian I JI Ehrhardt David W DW Briggs Winslow R WR
Molecular plant 20140523 9
Reorganization of the cortical microtubule cytoskeleton is critical for guard cell function. Here, we investigate how environmental and hormonal signals cause these rearrangements and find that COP1, a RING-finger-type ubiquitin E3 ligase, is required for degradation of tubulin, likely by the 26S proteasome. This degradation is required for stomatal closing. In addition to regulating the cytoskeleton, we show that cop1 mutation impaired the activity of S-type anion channels, which are critical f ...[more]