Peptide Aptamers to Inhibit Protein Function in Plants

Zhenzhen Hao; Pichang Gong; Chaoying He; Jinxing Lin

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.007

Peptide Aptamers to Inhibit Protein Function in Plants

Trends Plant Sci. 2018 Apr;23(4):281-284. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.007. Epub 2018 Mar 5.

Authors

Zhenzhen Hao¹, Pichang Gong², Chaoying He³, Jinxing Lin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; These authors contributed equally to this work.
² State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; These authors contributed equally to this work.
³ State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road 19, Beijing 10049, China. Electronic address: chaoying@ibcas.ac.cn.
⁴ Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. Electronic address: linjinxing@bjfu.edu.cn.

PMID: 29519611
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.007

Abstract

Peptide aptamers - artificial short peptides with specific binding affinity for target molecules - can be used to interfere with protein functions and protein-protein interactions in plant cells. Therefore, peptide aptamers have emerged as a new, powerful tool with high efficiency and specificity and wide applications in functional genomics and plant biotechnology.

Keywords: peptide aptamers; plant biotechnology.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Aptamers, Peptide / metabolism*
Biotechnology
Genomics
Plant Proteins / metabolism*
Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs*

Substances

Aptamers, Peptide
Plant Proteins