Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

EMS1 and BRI1 control separate biological processes via extracellular domain diversity and intracellular domain conservation

  • Bowen Zheng,
  • Qunwei Bai,
  • Lei Wu,
  • Huan Liu,
  • Yuping Liu,
  • Weijun Xu,
  • Guishuang Li,
  • Hongyan Ren,
  • Xiaoping She,
  • Guang Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12112-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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EMS1 is a receptor-like kinase that recognizes the peptide ligand TPD1 to specify tapeta in Arabidopsis. Here, via a reciprocal complementation approach, the authors provide evidence that intracellular signaling by EMS1 is interchangeable with that of the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1.