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Yoshikatsu MATSUBAYASHI<br />
Fig. 6. Schematic of the 120-kD PSK receptor. The diagram shows the<br />
signal peptide (SP, red), extracellular leucine-rich repeats (LRRs,<br />
yellow), a 36-amino-acid island, a transmembrane domain (TM,<br />
blue), and a cytoplasmic kinase domain (green).<br />
Future perspectives<br />
Now that in vitro function of PSK and the molecular basis of ligand-receptor interaction in<br />
PSK signaling have been established, the next phase of research is characterization of the in vivo<br />
role of PSK and its downstream signaling pathway in plants. The carrot PSK receptor exhibits a<br />
high percentage of amino acid identity with several LRR receptor-like kinases found in<br />
Arabidopsis. The sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome is now complete, and large collections of<br />
gene-disruption lines are available. Once PSK-binding activities of these LRR-RLKs are<br />
confirmed, direct clues to in vivo function of PSK will be provided by phenotypes of knockout<br />
mutants.<br />
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