Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

A RAF-SnRK2 kinase cascade mediates early osmotic stress signaling in higher plants

  • Zhen Lin,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Zhengjing Zhang,
  • Xiaolei Liu,
  • Chuan-Chih Hsu,
  • Yanyan Du,
  • Tian Sang,
  • Chen Zhu,
  • Yubei Wang,
  • Viswanathan Satheesh,
  • Pritu Pratibha,
  • Yang Zhao,
  • Chun-Peng Song,
  • W. Andy Tao,
  • Jian-Kang Zhu,
  • Pengcheng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14477-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Rapid activation of SnRK2 kinases is central to plant responses to osmotic stress and abscisic acid. Here the authors show that a group of Raf-like kinases are very quickly activated by osmotic stress, and then phosphorylate and activate SnRK2s.