PMID- 22102775
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111123
LR  - 20240512
IS  - 0973-2063 (Electronic)
IS  - 0973-2063 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 4
DP  - 2011
TI  - Characterization of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in the Curcuma 
      longa expressed sequence tag database.
PG  - 180-3
AB  - Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are universal signal 
      transduction modules that play crucial role in plant growth and development as 
      well as biotic and abiotic stress responses. 20 and 17 MAPKs have been 
      characterized in Arabidopsis and rice respectively, which are used for 
      identification of the putative MAPKs in other higher plants. However, no MAPK 
      gene sequences have yet been characterized for asexually reproducing plants. We 
      describe the analysis of MAPK EST sequences from Curcuma longa (an asexually 
      reproducible plant of great medicinal and economic significance). The four 
      Curcuma MAPKs contains all 11 MAPK conserved domains and 
      phosphorylation-activation motif, TEY. Phylogenetic analysis grouped them in the 
      subgroup A and C as identified earlier for Arabidopsis. The Curcuma MAPKs 
      identified showed high sequence homology to rice OsMPK3, OsMPK4 and OsMPK5 
      suggesting the presence of similar key element in signaling biotic and abiotic 
      stress responses. Although further in vivo and in vitro analysis are required to 
      establish the physiological role of Curcuma MAPKs, this study provides the base 
      for future research on diverse signaling pathways mediated by MAPKs in Curcuma 
      longa as well as other asexually reproducing plants.
FAU - Joshi, Raj Kumar
AU  - Joshi RK
AD  - Centre of Biotechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Siksha O Anusandhan 
      University, Bhubaneswar-751003, India.
FAU - Kar, Basudeba
AU  - Kar B
FAU - Nayak, Sanghamitra
AU  - Nayak S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20111014
PL  - Singapore
TA  - Bioinformation
JT  - Bioinformation
JID - 101258255
PMC - PMC3218520
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Curcuma longa
OT  - MAPKs
OT  - TBLASTN
OT  - expressed sequence tags
EDAT- 2011/11/22 06:00
MHDA- 2011/11/22 06:01
PMCR- 2011/01/01
CRDT- 2011/11/22 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/09/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/11/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/11/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/11/22 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2011/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 97320630007180 [pii]
AID - 10.6026/97320630007180 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Bioinformation. 2011;7(4):180-3. doi: 10.6026/97320630007180. Epub 2011 Oct 14.