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Author: search.filters.author.Shekhar, ShubhenduSubject: search.filters.subject.Stress tolerance

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    Heat shock proteins and abiotic stress tolerance in plants
    (Springer Nature, 2018) Mishra, Divya; Shekhar, Shubhendu; Singh, Deepika; Chakraborty, Subhra; Chakraborty, Niranjan
    Abiotic stresses restrict plant growth and development, and reduce harvest index of many crop species worldwide. Maintenance of native conformation of proteins and reducing the accumulation of non-native proteins are imperative for survival under stress conditions as such stresses frequently lead to protein aggregation causing metabolic dysfunction. Heat shock proteins (HSP) play a key role in conferring abiotic stress tolerance. Plants protect themselves from numerous stresses by inducing HSP, besides some stress-responsive proteins, suggesting analogous response mechanisms. A close association between the HSP and ROS also co-exists, indicating that plants have evolved to gain a higher degree of regulation over ROS toxicity and can use ROS as elicitor to induce HSP for better adaptations through activating an array of molecules. Therefore, unraveling the mechanisms of plant response against various stress and the role of HSP in acquired stress tolerance is utmost important to delineate their specific function as a part of stress-responsive module. The HSP have been well characterized in different crop species, albeit the knowledge about their correlation with genome sequence information as well as their functional plasticity is limited.
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    Carboxylate clamp tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain containing Hsp90 cochaperones in Triticeace: an insight into structural and functional diversification
    (Elsevier B.V., 2018) Mishra, Divya; Shekhar, Shubhendu; Chakraborty, Subhra; Chakraborty, Niranjan
    The molecular chaperones serve as surveillance molecules that mediates regulatory crosstalk between protein folding and degradation pathways under natural and stress conditions. In present study, we focused on the diversification and role of tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain containing Hsp90 cochaperones. These cochaperone were recognized by the presence of three motifs of TPR with the basic conserved residues often referred to as carboxylate clamp (CC). A total of 213 putative CC-TPRs were found in Triticeace, clustered into 16 groups, amongst which few CC-TPR families such as TPR-RPAP3 and TPR-SMYD were documented. Domain architecture and genomic organization revealed that CC-TPRs are very diverse in nature. Evolutionary analyses showed that CC-TPRs are conserved, stable and ubiquitous in nature. Analysis of available RNA-seq data revealed a high degree of tissue-specific expression of 1-TPR and TaTPR-FKBP family members at various developmental stages. The transcripts of TaCC-TPRs displayed differential expression in two contrasting wheat cultivars under abiotic stress conditions. Complementation and heterologous expression of TaTPR-FKBP5 in yeast conferred abiotic stress tolerance. Together, these results provide a glimpse into the genetic diversity and evolution of CC-TPRs in Triticeace, which would help to better understand of how TPR-domain cochaperones function in plants.