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Plant function and evolutionary biology
REVIEW

Small ubiquitin-like modifiers E3 ligases in plant stress

Shantwana Ghimire https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2723-7652 A , Md Mahadi Hasan A and Xiang-Wen Fang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2227-2800 A *
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A State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.

* Correspondence to: fangxw@lzu.edu.cn

Handling Editor: Inzamam Haq

Functional Plant Biology 51, FP24032 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP24032
Submitted: 27 January 2024  Accepted: 5 April 2024  Published: 26 April 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Plants regularly encounter various environmental stresses such as salt, drought, cold, heat, heavy metals and pathogens, leading to changes in their proteome. Of these, a post-translational modification, SUMOylation is particularly significant for its extensive involvement in regulating various plant molecular processes to counteract these external stressors. Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMO) protein modification significantly contributes to various plant functions, encompassing growth, development and response to environmental stresses. The SUMO system has a limited number of ligases even in fully sequenced plant genomes but SUMO E3 ligases are pivotal in recognising substrates during the process of SUMOylation. E3 ligases play pivotal roles in numerous biological and developmental processes in plants, including DNA repair, photomorphogenesis, phytohormone signalling and responses to abiotic and biotic stress. A considerable number of targets for E3 ligases are proteins implicated in reactions to abiotic and biotic stressors. This review sheds light on how plants respond to environmental stresses by focusing on recent findings on the role of SUMO E3 ligases, contributing to a better understanding of how plants react at a molecular level to such stressors.

Keywords: abiotic stress, biotic stress, hormonal signalling, plant response, small ubiquitin-like modifiers, SUMO E3 ligase, SUMO targets, SUMOylation.

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