Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

The Arabidopsis MIEL1 E3 ligase negatively regulates ABA signalling by promoting protein turnover of MYB96

  • Hong Gil Lee,
  • Pil Joon Seo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12525
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The phytohormone abscisic acid controls plant responses to environmental stress, partly by regulating protein turnover. Here the authors propose that abscisic acid regulates seed germination by promoting degradation of the MYB96 transcription factor via the MIEL1 E3 ubiquitin (Ub) ligase.