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Light and its effect on plant proteome
Luklová, Markéta
Light is one of the main environmental factors largely determining plant life. Light provides energy resources for photosynthesis and it is also the most important medium of perception as it represents the main source of information about plant surroundings. My diploma thesis entitled “Light and its effect on plant proteome” briefly summarizes present knowledge about the light perception in plants, its interpretation of light quality, quantity, and direction via photoreceptors. These components trigger a whole range of changes, both on molecular and developmental levels, but the complex molecular mechanisms regulating system of light signalling in plants are far from being resolved. Here, I followed effects of different light parameters on plant proteome, namely, diurnal variations, low- and high-light intensity, spectral composition, and a change in the light period duration. To study these effects two model organisms were selected (i) Arabidopsis thaliana as a representative plant model with the most annotated genome/proteome and (ii) Solanum lycopersicum as a representative plant model significant for agriculture and biotechnology. Proteome changes in response to different light factors were analyzed by LC-MS. In total, the analyses revealed over 100 and 300 light-responsive proteins in Arabidopsis and S. lycopersicum, respectively. Proteomics provided highly sensitive snapshots of protein abundance in response to light and selected experiments have been complemented with a GC-MS metabolite profiling, conductivity measurements, and fluorescence microscopy.
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Narušení metabolismu proteinů a jeho efekt na růst rostlin
Luklová, Markéta
Recent years have shown that plant hormones operate through circuits in which targeted, conditional turnover of regulator proteins via proteasome are of critical importance. Thus, a disruption of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) would have a significant impact on plant growth and development. This thesis entitled Protein metabolism disruption and its effect on plant growth reviews the mechanisms of proteasome-mediated targeted degradation and analyzes its role in plant hormone cytokinin signaling. The experimental part is divided into two sections (i) growth response analyzes and (ii) an LC-MS profiling of diurnal variations in transgenic Arabidopsis seedlings RV 86-5 carrying modified inducible ubiquitin that prevents protein degradation via the UPS. The results present evidence that an intricate balance between the UPS and cytokinin modulates the growth response output of cytokinin signaling. On the proteome level, an LC-MS profiling identified >4,000 proteins, 61 of which were previously identified in response to proteasome inhibition.
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