Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2016, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (1): 1-8.DOI: 10.11983/CBB15118

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Progress in Cysteine-rich Gibberellic Acid-stimulated Arabidopsis Protein

Chunmei Zhong, Xiaojing Wang*   

  1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
  • Received:2015-07-02 Accepted:2015-08-05 Online:2016-01-01 Published:2016-02-01
  • Contact: Wang Xiaojing
  • About author:? These authors contributed equally to this paper

Abstract: Gibberellic Acid-stimulated Arabidopsis (GASA) protein is a plant-specific cysteine-rich protein family that plays an important role in plant development programs and hormone signal transduction. GASA protein contains a GASA domain with 12 cysteines in highly conserved positions of the amino acid sequences, which is essential for their biochemical function and may be responsible for their protein structure and protein-protein interaction. This review focuses on the current knowledge of protein molecular structure analyses, subcellular location and physiological functions of GASA and discusses future study.

Key words: GASA protein, cysteine-rich protein, small protein, gibberellins