Photorespiration: regulation and new insights on the potential role of persulfidation

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Photorespiration has been considered a 'futile' cycle in C3 plants, necessary to detoxify and recycle the metabolites generated by the oxygenating activity of Rubisco. However, several reports indicate that this metabolic route plays a fundamental role in plant metabolism and constitutes a very interesting research topic. Many open questions still remain with regard to photorespiration. One of these questions is how the photorespiratory process is regulated in plants and what factors contribute to this regulation. In this review, we summarize recent advances in the regulation of the photorespiratory pathway with a special focus on the transcriptional and post-translational regulation of photorespiration and the interconnections of this process with nitrogen and sulfur metabolism. Recent findings on sulfide signaling and protein persulfidation are also described.

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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019- 109785GB-I00, PID2021-122353OB-100

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Junta de Andalucía PROYEXCEL_00177, US-1255781

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Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades RTI2018- 093571-B-100

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European Research Council (ERC) 864921

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