Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2001, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (05): 554-559.

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Calcium_calmodulin Signal Transduction Pathway and Environment Stimulation

LIU Hong-Tao LI Bing ZHOU Ren-Gang   

  1. 1(Institute of Agro_physics, Physiology and Biochemisty, Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050051)2(College of Life Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050016)
  • Received:2000-09-27 Revised:2001-05-08 Online:2001-09-20 Published:2001-09-20
  • Contact: LIU Hong-Tao

Abstract: Great progresses have been made in the research of plant stress-resistance, but which signal transduction pathways are activated responding to environment stimulation are still unknown. Some researches have found out that many stimuli have something to do with Ca2+ and calmodulin. Ca2+ signal system is a very important transduction pathway, and calmodulin is the most important known r eceptor of intracellular Ca2+, which is involved in regulation of many physiological activities. Research workers have evidences in gene regulation level, transcription level, protein level that suggest Ca2+ and calmodulin are involved in heat shock reaction. Other environment stimulations also can lead to a series of changes of Ca2+ and calmodulin. These provide the foundation and basis for studying the probable signal transduction pathways of nvironment stimulation.