Martine Thomas

TL;DR: Analysis of intron placements supports the hypothesis that CDPKs, CRks, PPCKs and PEPRKs have a common evolutionary origin; however there are no conserved intron positions between these kinases and the SnRK subgroup.

TL;DR: Characterisation of three novel cDNAs from Arabidopsis thaliana suggest the presence in higher plants of a conserved heterotrimeric complex and the differential transcription of different non-catalytic subunits can constitute a first level of regulation of the SNF1-like complex in plants.

TL;DR: The AKin10 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana encoding a putative Ser/Thr protein kinase (PK) has been isolated and characterized and may play an important role in a signal transduction cascade regulating gene expression and carbohydrate metabolism in higher plants.

TL;DR: It is shown that, despite its unusual features, the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) homolog AKINβγ clearly interacts with AKIN βγ-subunits in vitro and in vivo, suggesting its involvement in heterotrimeric complexes located in both cytoplasm and nucleus.

TL;DR: The high conservation of the protein kinases of GSK-3 family, and their action at the transcriptional level, suggest that the ASK proteins have important functions in higher plants.