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Protein Kinases and Phosphatases Involved in ABA Signaling

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Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling

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Reversible protein phosphorylation, catalyzed by protein kinases and phosphatases, is involved in almost all key events of cell metabolism and signaling in eukaryotes. A wide array of protein kinases and phosphatases have been identified as crucial players in ABA signaling, among which Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs), sucrose non-fermenting-1 (SNF1)-related protein kinases (SnRKs), mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), receptor-like kinases (RLKs), and type 2C and type 2A protein phosphatases (PP2Cs and PP2As) are relatively best characterized and their functional mechanisms in ABA signaling begin to be understood. In this chapter, we examine these advances in the plant protein kinases and phosphatases as well as the insights of these discoveries into the mechanisms of ABA-signaling network.

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The authors thank all colleagues who provided unpublished results and apologize to those whose research was not discussed due to page limitation. The research on protein kinases and phosphatases in the author’s laboratory was supported by the grants from the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2012CB114300-002), National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ministry of Agriculture of China (Grant 2013ZX08009003).

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Liang, S., Zhang, DP. (2014). Protein Kinases and Phosphatases Involved in ABA Signaling. In: Zhang, DP. (eds) Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9424-4_8

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