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HEREDITAS(Beijing) ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (7): 644-650.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.15-525

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Progress on the autophagic regulators and receptors in plants

Xiaowei Zeng, Cuicui Liu, Ning Han, Hongwu Bian, Muyuan Zhu   

  1. Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2015-12-30 Online:2016-07-20 Published:2016-07-20

Abstract: Autophagy is an evolutionarily highly conserved catabolic pathway among eukaryotic cells that protects the organisms against environmental stress. Normally, autophagy is mainly involved with autophagy-related proteins(ATGs) and autophagic regulators including a series of cytoplasmic proteins and small molecules. Besides, the selective autophagy, which targets damaged organalles or protein aggregates, is mediated by the additional receptors to help the ATGs recognize different substrates. In this review, we summarize recent advances in autophagic regulators like ROS(Reactive oxygen species), TOR(Target of rapamycin) and receptors like NBR1(Neighbor of BRCA1 gene protein), RPN10(Regulatory particle non-ATPase 10) as well as their functional mechanisms mainly in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Key words: plant autophagy, ROS, TOR, NBR1, RPN10