The RING E3 Ligase KEEP ON GOING Modulates JASMONATE ZIM-DOMAIN12 Stability

Laurens Pauwels1, Andrés Ritter1, Jonas Goossens1

  • 1Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium (L.P., A.R., J.Go., A.N.D., J.Ge., R.V.B., R.D.C., J.V.L., G.D.J., A.G.);Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium (L.P., A.R., J.Go., A.N.D., J.Ge., R.V.B., R.D.C., J.V.L., G.D.J., A.G.);Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (L.P., J.C.);Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 (H.L., S.S.);Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (Y.Gu, R.W.I.);Plant Molecular Genetics Department, National Centre for Biotechnology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus University Autónoma, 28049 Madrid, Spain (M.B., R.S.);Department of Medical Protein Research, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (K.G.); andDepartment of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (K.G.).

Plant Physiology
|August 31, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Jasmonate signaling involves JAZ proteins, degraded via COI1. This study reveals JAZ12 interacts with KEG, a ligase regulating JAZ12 stability and plant hormone responses.

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