A common allosteric mechanism regulates homeostatic inactivation of auxin and gibberellin

Enzymatic inactivation of gibberellins and auxin, via GA2ox3 and DAO respectively, contributes to hormone homeostasis in plants. Here Takehara et al. show that both enzymes multimerize in a substrate-concentration-dependent manner, and that this multimerization leads to increased enzyme activity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sayaka Takehara, Shun Sakuraba, Bunzo Mikami, Hideki Yoshida, Hisako Yoshimura, Aya Itoh, Masaki Endo, Nobuhisa Watanabe, Takayuki Nagae, Makoto Matsuoka, Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16068-0