Cold Signal Shuttles from Membrane to Nucleus

• DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.03.010
• Publication Date: 2017-04-06T23:06:19Z
• Authors: Xiaoyu Guo; Shujuan Xu; Kang Chong
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; Arabidopsis Proteins; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Acclimatization; Arabidopsis; Plants, Genetically Modified

In this issue of Molecular Cell, Liu et al. (2017) show that the cold-activated plasma membrane protein kinase CRPK1 phosphorylates 14-3-3 proteins, triggering its nuclear translocation to impair the stabilization of the transcription factor CBFs for a feedback excessive cold defense response during the freezing in Arabidopsis.