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Sulfur is an essential nutrient for all organisms. Plants are able to take up inorganic sulfate and assimilate it into a range of bioorganic molecules, either after reduction to sulfide, or activation to 3′-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphosulfate. While the regulation of the reductive part of sulfate assimilation and the synthesis of cysteine has been studied extensively in the past three decades, much less attention has been paid to the control of synthesis of sulfated compounds. Only recently have the genes and enzymes activating sulfate and transferring it onto suitable acceptors been investigated in detail with the emphasis on understanding the control of partitioning of sulfur between the two branches of sulfate assimilation. These investigations brought a range of interesting new findings, such as a common regulatory network of sulfate assimilation and glucosinolate synthesis, and identified new components of the pathway, e.g. PAPS transporter or the 2′(3′),5′-diphosphoadenosine phosphatase. Here the new findings are reviewed and put into context of primary and secondary sulfur metabolism.
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Kopriva, S. (2015). Partitioning of Sulfur Between Primary and Secondary Metabolism. In: De Kok, L., Hawkesford, M., Rennenberg, H., Saito, K., Schnug, E. (eds) Molecular Physiology and Ecophysiology of Sulfur. Proceedings of the International Plant Sulfur Workshop. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20137-5_2
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