biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 50:1-7, 2006 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-005-0067-9

Plant telomere-binding proteins

M. Kuchar1
1 Department of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Telomere-binding proteins have recently been recognised not only as necessary building blocks of telomere structure, but namely as components which are of central importance to telomere metabolism being involved in regulation of telomere length as well as in protective (capping) function of telomeres. Although the knowledge on plant telomeric DNA-binding proteins lags behind that in human and yeast, recent data show both analogies and plant-specific features in the composition and interactions of telomeric proteins. This review focuses primarily on proteins with known amino acid sequence. These can be classified into following groups: 1) the family of proteins with Myb domain at C-terminus, 2) proteins with Myb domain at N-terminus, both binding double-stranded DNA of telomeric repeats TTTAGGG, 3) the single-stranded DNA-binding proteins, and 4) other proteins that act also in non-telomeric chromatin regions. Proteins with C-terminal Myb domain reported as IBP family were previously found in human, whereas Smh family representing proteins with Myb domain at N-terminus was identified only in plants. Also RRM family of the single-stranded DNA-binding proteins is likely to be plant specific.

Keywords: telomere-associated proteins; DNA-binding; Arabidopsis thaliana
Subjects: Arabidopsis thaliana; proteins; telomere-associated proteins

Received: August 16, 2004; Accepted: April 25, 2005; Published: March 1, 2006  Show citation

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Kuchar, M. (2006). Plant telomere-binding proteins. Biologia plantarum, 50(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s10535-005-0067-9
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