Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Proteomics Approach

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Heavy metal contamination is one of the major environmental hazards, leading to losses in agricultural yields and harmfully affecting human health. The most crucial function of plant cell is to respond against heavy metal stress for self-defence. The identification of the functional genes or proteins that are involved in responses to heavy-metal stress is a fundamental step in understanding the molecular mechanisms of stress responses. Protein expression is regulated not only at the transcriptional level, but also at the translational and post-translational levels. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the changes in plant proteome under different stress conditions. Proteomics, defined as the large-scale analysis of proteins expressed by the genome, is not only a powerful molecular tool for describing complete proteome, but also for comparative proteomes under different physiological conditions, such as heavy metal stress. In this review, proteomics technologies, and heavy metal induced proteins which play a role in different metabolic events in plants are discussed.

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Plants , Heavy Metal , Toxicity , Proteomics , Mass Spectrometry

Afyon Kocatepe University Journal Of Science an‎d Engineering

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Afyon Kocatepe University Journal Of Science an‎d Engineering