Exploring regulatory networks in plants: transcription factors of starch metabolism.

ABSTRACT: Biological networks are complex (non-linear), redundant (cyclic) and compartmentalized at the subcellular level. Rational manipulation of plant metabolism may have failed due to inherent difficulties of a comprehensive understanding of regulatory loops. We first need to identify key factors controlling the regulatory loops of primary metabolism. The paradigms of plant networks are revised in order to highlight the differences between metabolic and transcriptional networks. Comparison between animal and plant transcription factors (TFs) reveal some important differences. Plant transcriptional networks function at a lower hierarchy compared to animal regulatory networks. Plant genomes contain more TFs than animal genomes, but plant proteins are smaller and have less domains as animal protein

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Gonzalez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625501 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature