Sugar perception and signaling - an update

Johannes Hanson; Sjef Smeekens

doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2009.07.014

Sugar perception and signaling - an update

Johannes Hanson^*, Sjef Smeekens

^*Corresponding author for this work

Faculty of Science

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Abstract

Sugars act as potent signaling molecules in plants. Several sugar sensors, including the highly studied glucose sensor HEXOKINASE1 (HXK1), have been identified or proposed. Many additional sensors likely exist, as plants respond to other sugars and sugar metabolites, such as sucrose and trehalose 6-phosphate. Sugar sensing and signaling is a highly complex process resulting in many changes in physiology and development and is integrated with other signaling pathways in plants such as those for inorganic nutrients, hormones, and different stress factors. Importantly, KIN10 and KIN11 protein kinases are central in coordinating several of the responses to sugars and stress. bZIP transcription factors were found to mediate effects of sugar signaling on gene expression and metabolite content.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	562-567
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Opinion in Plant Biology
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2009.07.014
Publication status	Published - Oct 2009

Funding

We apologize to colleagues whose work could not be discussed or cited due to space constraints. Work in our laboratories is Supported by the Dutch research council (NWO) and the Dutch Gcnornics Initiative (NGI).

Keywords

BZIP TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA
TREHALOSE 6-PHOSPHATE
PROTEIN-KINASES
PLANT-GROWTH
EXPRESSION
GENE
GLUCOSE
STRESS
ENERGY

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Sugar perception and signaling - an update

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