Plant and Human Sulfur Biology
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "ROS, RNS and RSS".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 21282
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Interests: abiotic stress; autophagy; Arabidopsis; cysteine metabolism; sulfide signaling
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Interests: redoxins; cysteine modification; iron-sulfur proteins; plants; protein–protein interaction
Interests: cellular signaling; sulfur metabolism; redox regulation; proteomic analysis
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Interests: sulfur trafficking; sulfurtransferase; cysteine desulfurase; rhodanese; protein persulfidation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sulfur is an essential element for life, and cysteine represents a key sulfur-containing metabolite in all organisms. In plants, cysteine is synthesized via the photosynthetic assimilation of sulfate and in animals from methionine via the transsulfuration pathway. In both plants and animals, cysteine is crucial for the structure, function and regulation of proteins, and also as a precursor of essential biomolecules and defense compounds. Hence, sulfur compounds have key roles in normal and perturbed physiological processes. In recent years, the physiological effects of hydrogen sulfide, produced in different subcellular compartments of eukaryotes, became emergent, and a role in signaling has notably been proposed to occur via cysteine persulfidation—a redox posttranslational modification (PTM) of cysteine residues that seems to be intricately connected to other redox PTMs.
We invite researchers in the field and the participants of the Joint meeting for Plant and Human Sulfur Biology and Glucosinolates, which will be held in Sevilla (Spain) in September 2021, to submit their latest research findings or review articles to this Special Issue. This will bring together current research concerning cysteine metabolism, sulfur trafficking, hydrogen sulfide formation and signaling, and protein persulfidation in both normal processes and perturbed physiological states of plant and animal cells.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Cecilia Gotor
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rouhier
Dr. Luis Romero González
Dr. Jeremy Couturier
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogen sulfide
- signaling
- protein persulfidation
- cysteine metabolism
- redox post-translational modification
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