Plant growth : the translational connection

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Robaglia, Christophe | Menand, Benoît | Lei, Y. | Sormani, Rodnay | Nicolai, M. | Géry, Carine | Deprost, D. | Meyer, Christian, C.

Edité par CCSD ; Portland Press -

International audience. The TOR (target of rapamycin) pathway is a phylogenetically conserved transduction system in eukaryotes linking the energy status of the cell to the protein synthesis apparatus and to cell growth. The TOR protein is specifically inhibited by a rapamycin–FKBP12 complex (where FKBP stands for FK506-binding protein) in yeast and animal cells. Whereas plants appear insensitive to rapamycin, Arabidopsis thaliana harbours a single TOR gene, which is essential for embryonic development. It was found that the product of this gene was capable of binding to rapamycin and yeast FKBP12. In-frame fusion with a GUS reporter gene shows that the TOR protein is produced essentially in proliferating zones, whereas the TOR mRNA can be detected in all organs suggesting a translational regulation of TOR. Phenotypic analysis of Arabidopsis TOR mutants indicates that the plant TOR pathway fulfils the same role in controlling cell growth as its other eukaryotic counterparts.

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