What we know about plant arginases?

Siddappa, Shiva and Marathe, Gopal Kedihithlu (2020) What we know about plant arginases? Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 156. pp. 600-610.

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Abstract

Nitrogen is one of the essential element required for plant growth and development. In plants, most of the nitrogen is stored in arginine. Hence, metabolism of arginine to urea by arginase and its further hydrolysis to ammonia by urease is involved in nitrogen recycling to meet the metabolic demands of growing plants. In this respect, plant arginases differ from that of animals. Animals excrete urea while plants recycle the urea. However, the studies on the biochemical and biophysical characteristics of plant arginase are limited when compared to animal arginase(s). In this review, the structural and biochemical characteristics of various plant arginases are discussed. Moreover, the significance of arginase in nitrogen recycling is explained and recent literature on function and activation of plant arginases in response to various environmental (biotic and abiotic) insults is also presented.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Plant arginase; Arginine; Nitrogen recycling; Polyamines; Jasmonic acid inducible proteins (JIPs); Biotic and abiotic stress
Subjects:	C Chemical Science > Biochemistry
Divisions:	Department of > Biochemistry
Depositing User:	Mr Umendra uom
Date Deposited:	29 Mar 2021 06:01
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2021 06:01
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/15483

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