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Cytosolic Ca2+ pulses and protein kinase activation in the signal transduction pathways leading to the plant oxidative burst

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The oxidative burst, the rapid production of O2- and H2O2 by plant cells in response to pathogens and Stressors, is a critical step in plant disease resistance and is controlled by several different elicitor-initiated signaling pathways. While different defense elicitors appear to activate disparate initial steps in signaling the oxidative burst, all of the elicitors tested thus far appear to stimulate pathways that converge on the same three core signaling intermediates: 1) the Ca2+-independent activation of a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family member, 2) the influx of Ca2+ into the cytosol, deriving most critically from an internal compartment, and 3) the Ca2+-dependent activation of additional protein kinases including a second MAPK homologue and possibly calcium dependent protein kinases (CDPKs). Data from several recent reports are summarized to place these signaling events into a complete and updated model of signaling to the plant oxidative burst.

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Abbreviations

CDPK:

Calcium Dependent Protein Kinase

GMK1:

Glycine max Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase 1

GMK2:

Glycine max Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase 2

MAPK:

Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase

SIPK:

Salicylic Acid-Induced Protein Kinase

WIPK:

Wounding-lnduced Protein Kinase

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    Present address: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University, Tower Road, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

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  1. Department of Biology and Chemistry, Eastern Mennonite University, 22802, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

    Stephen G. Cessna

  2. Chemistry Department, Purdue University, 1327 Brown Building, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Jitae Kim

  3. Chemistry Department, Wabash College, PO Box 327, 47933, Crawfordsville, IN, USA

    Ann T. S. Taylor

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Cessna, S.G., Kim, J. & Taylor, A.T.S. Cytosolic Ca2+ pulses and protein kinase activation in the signal transduction pathways leading to the plant oxidative burst. J. Plant Biol. 46, 215–222 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03030367

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