Jasmonic acid articles within Nature

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• Article | 19 May 2021

  Discovery, characterization and engineering of ligases for amide synthesis

  A family of enzymes—coronafacic acid ligases, involved in the synthesis of bacterial phytotoxins—are found to catalyse amide bond formation with a wide range of substrates.

  • Michael Winn
  • , Michael Rowlinson
  •  & Jason Micklefield

• Letter | 01 April 2010

  NINJA connects the co-repressor TOPLESS to jasmonate signalling

  In plants, the hormone jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) regulates growth, development and defence against pathogens. Proteins of the JAZ family repress JA-Ile-dependent gene expression, but the mechanism has been unclear. Here, an adaptor protein, NINJA, has been identified, which recruits co-repressor proteins that are known to mediate auxin-responsive gene expression as well. Hence these co-repressors are part of general repression complexes that are recruited to several different signalling pathways.

  • Laurens Pauwels
  • , Gemma Fernández Barbero
  •  & Alain Goossens