F-box protein is an expanding family member of eukaryotic protein characterized by an F-box motif which has specificity of substrate recognition in the ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis.These proteins have been proved to...F-box protein is an expanding family member of eukaryotic protein characterized by an F-box motif which has specificity of substrate recognition in the ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis.These proteins have been proved to be critical for many physiological processes,such as cell-cycle transition,signal transduction,gene transcription,male sterility,programmed cell death (PCD) and so on.This paper mainly introduces the biological functions of the known F-box proteins and the analysis of F-box gene phylogeny.展开更多
基金Supported by the Cloning and Genetics Analysis of Cold-Induced Genes in PA64S, Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(09JJ3044)
文摘F-box protein is an expanding family member of eukaryotic protein characterized by an F-box motif which has specificity of substrate recognition in the ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis.These proteins have been proved to be critical for many physiological processes,such as cell-cycle transition,signal transduction,gene transcription,male sterility,programmed cell death (PCD) and so on.This paper mainly introduces the biological functions of the known F-box proteins and the analysis of F-box gene phylogeny.