کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8288143 1535874 2015 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Inositol pyrophosphates: Why so many phosphates?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
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Inositol pyrophosphates: Why so many phosphates?
چکیده انگلیسی
The inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are a specialized group of “energetic” signaling molecules found in yeasts, plants and animals. PP-InsPs boast the most crowded three dimensional phosphate arrays found in Nature; multiple phosphates and diphosphates are crammed around the six-carbon, inositol ring. Yet, phosphate esters are also a major energy currency in cells. So the synthesis of PP-InsPs, and the maintenance of their levels in the face of a high rate of ongoing turnover, all requires significant bioenergetic input. What are the particular properties of PP-InsPs that repay this investment of cellular energy? Potential answers to that question are discussed here, against the backdrop of a recent hypothesis that signaling by PP-InsPs is evolutionarily ancient. The latter idea is extended herein, with the proposal that the primordial origins of PP-InsPs is reflected in the apparent lack of isomeric specificity of certain of their actions. Nevertheless, there are other aspects of signaling by these polyphosphates that are more selective for a particular PP-InsP isomer. Consideration of the nature of both specific and non-specific effects of PP-InsPs can help rationalize why such molecules possess so many phosphates.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Advances in Biological Regulation - Volume 57, January 2015, Pages 203-216
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