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SUBMITTER: Molisso D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9173717 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molisso Donata D Coppola Mariangela M Buonanno Martina M Di Lelio Ilaria I Aprile Anna Maria AM Langella Emma E Rigano Maria Manuela MM Francesca Silvana S Chiaiese Pasquale P Palmieri Gianna G Tatè Rosarita R Sinno Martina M Barra Eleonora E Becchimanzi Andrea A Monti Simona Maria SM Pennacchio Francesco F Rao Rosa R
Frontiers in plant science 20220524
Prosystemin is a 200-amino acid precursor expressed in Solanaceae plants which releases at the C-terminal part a peptidic hormone called Systemin in response to wounding and herbivore attack. We recently showed that Prosystemin is not only a mere scaffold of Systemin but, even when deprived of Systemin, is biologically active. These results, combined with recent discoveries that Prosystemin is an intrinsically disordered protein containing disordered regions within its sequence, prompted us to i ...[more]