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Uncovering the signaling roles of inositol polyphosphates in plant growth and development

Cellular biology, physiology and cellular imaging Life Sciences Plant biology

Abstract

Inositol polyphosphates (InsPs), particularly their pyrophosphate derivatives (PP-InsPs), are recently characterized as signaling molecules present in all eukaryotes. Extensive research has been conducted on the PP-InsP pathway revealing its impacts on organogenesis and various diseases such as cancer metastasis, obesity, and diabetes. Cellular PP-InsPs exist in low concentrations, complex isoforms, and turnover fast, therefore, making them a real challenge to monitor and to analyze. This restricts the PP-InsP study especially on defining their specific roles or putatively variable distribution among cells/tissues. To solve the problem, this project aims to create cellular reporters for monitoring PP-InsPs in real-time. Given the PP-InsP pathway is conserved, the development of the PP-InsP sensors in plants will have a broader impact on the study of to the fundamental characteristics of PP-InsP signaling in animals. For example, the transfer of the PP-InsP reporters to cancer cell lines for possibility to use it for better understanding of PP-InsP-regulated cancer metastasis in the future.

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Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies d’Aix Marseille
BIAM - Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies d’Aix Marseille
EBMP - Biodiversité, Écologie et Adaptation Environnement, Bioénergies, Mi(a)croalgues
Aix-Marseille Université
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