DNA stress checkpoint control and plant development

Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2009 Feb;12(1):23-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2008.09.012. Epub 2008 Nov 14.

Abstract

Plants are sedentary, and so have unavoidably close contact with agents that target their genome integrity. To sense and react to these threats, plants have evolved DNA stress checkpoint mechanisms that arrest the cell cycle and activate the DNA repair machinery to preserve the genome content. Although the pathways that maintain DNA integrity are largely conserved among eukaryotic organisms, plants put different accents on cell cycle control under DNA stress and might have their own way to cope with it.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • DNA Damage*
  • DNA, Plant / metabolism*
  • Plant Development*
  • Plant Proteins / metabolism

Substances

  • DNA, Plant
  • Plant Proteins