Plant protein peptidase inhibitors: an evolutionary overview based on comparative genomics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peptidases are key proteins involved in essential plant physiological processes. Although protein peptidase inhibitors are essential molecules that modulate peptidase activity, their global presence in different plant species remains still unknown. Comparative genomic analyses are powerful tools to get advanced knowledge into the presence and evolution of both, peptidases and their inhibitors across the Viridiplantae kingdom.

Results

A genomic comparative analysis of peptidase inhibitors and several groups of peptidases in representative species of different plant taxonomic groups has been performed. The results point out: i) clade-specific presence is common to many families of peptidase inhibitors, being some families present in most land plants; ii) variability

SUBMITTER: Santamaria ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4189545 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature