Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Strigolactone perception and deactivation by a hydrolase receptor DWARF14

  • Yoshiya Seto,
  • Rei Yasui,
  • Hiromu Kameoka,
  • Muluneh Tamiru,
  • Mengmeng Cao,
  • Ryohei Terauchi,
  • Akane Sakurada,
  • Rena Hirano,
  • Takaya Kisugi,
  • Atsushi Hanada,
  • Mikihisa Umehara,
  • Eunjoo Seo,
  • Kohki Akiyama,
  • Jason Burke,
  • Noriko Takeda-Kamiya,
  • Weiqiang Li,
  • Yoshinori Hirano,
  • Toshio Hakoshima,
  • Kiyoshi Mashiguchi,
  • Joseph P. Noel,
  • Junko Kyozuka,
  • Shinjiro Yamaguchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08124-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Cleavage of strigolactone by the D14 receptor was assumed to produce an active intermediate that promotes signaling. Here the authors show that D14 activity is not dependent on cleavage activity and propose a new model whereby ligand hydrolysis serves to deactivate strigolactone signaling.