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CONTENTS; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Transmembrane Receptors in Plants: Receptor Kinases and Their Ligands; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Classifications of the RLK superfamily; 1.3 Redundancy and antagonism among closely related RLKs; 1.4 Ligands for RLKs; 1.5 Small peptides; 1.6 Cysteine-rich extracellular proteins; 1.7 Other possible ligands and their-corresponding receptors; 1.8 Ligand-receptor interactions; 1.9 Early events in receptor kinase signaling: dynamics of receptor activation |
1.10 Early events in receptor kinase signaling: emerging link to small GTP-binding proteins1.11 Future perspectives; 2 Heterotrimeric G-Protein-Coupled Signaling in Higher Plants; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Heterotrimeric G proteins in nonplant systems; 2.3 Heterotrimeric G proteins in higher plants; 2.4 Conclusions and future directions; 3 ROP/RAC GTPases; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Structural conservation and diversification; 3.3 Physiological functions and downstream signaling; 3.4 Mechanisms for the regulation of the ROP GTPase "ON/OFF" status; 3.5 Potential upstream regulators of ROP signaling |
3.6 Future perspectives4 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Intracellular Signaling; 4.1 Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades are evolutionarily conserved signaling modules in eukaryotic cells; 4.2 History of plant MAPK research; 4.3 Plant MAPK cascades; 4.4 Negative regulation of plant MAPK cascades; 4.5 Important tools/techniques in MAPK research; 4.6 Biological functions of MAPK cascades in plants; 4.7 Signaling specificity of plant MAPK cascades; 4.8 Conclusion remarks; 5 Calcium Signals and Their Regulation; 5.1 Introduction |
5.2 Ca 2 +as a second messenger in plants: of signatures and switches5.3 Ca 2 +channels and pumps; 5.4 Decoding the Ca 2 +signal; 5.5 Ca 2 +and Nod-factor signaling: a role for kinases in decoding the Ca 2 +signal?; 5.6 Ca 2 +uptake and transport; 5.7 Sensing extracellular Ca 2 +; 5.8 Ca 2 +, light, and circadian [Ca 2 +] oscillations; 5.9 Conclusions and perspectives; 6 Paradigms and Networks for Intracellular Calcium Signaling in Plant Cells; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 CDPKs, plant calcium "sensor responders"; 6.3 CaM: small calcium sensors with a variety of target proteins |
6.4 The CBL-CIPK network6.5 Perspectives: complex networks for Ca 2 +decoding in plant cells; 7 Reactive Oxygen Signaling in Plants; 7.1 Introduction to reactive oxygen metabolism; 7.2 ROS signaling and its modulation by the ROS gene network; 7.3 Subcellular localization and coordination of the ROS network; 7.4 Key components of the ROS gene network identified by reverse genetics; 7.5 The ROS signal transduction pathway of plants; 7.6 Summary; 8 Lipid-Mediated Signaling; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Plant-specific features of phosphoinositide signaling; 8.3 Phospholipase D signaling |
8.4 Sphingolipid signaling |