Volume 27, No 12, Dec 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 12, December 2017: 1525-1528

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Simple β-lactones are potent irreversible antagonists for strigolactone receptors

Haibo Xiang^1,*, Ruifeng Yao^2,*, Tianfei Quan¹, Fei Wang², Li Chen², Xiaoxi Du², Wenhao Zhang², Haiteng Deng², Daoxin Xie² and Tuoping Luo¹

¹Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
²Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Correspondence: Tuoping Luo, E-mail: tuopingluo@pku.edu.cn; Daoxin Xie,(daoxinlab@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

Strigolactones (SLs) are a class of plant hormones that play vital roles not only in the control of plant branching and early seedling growth, but also in mediating rhizospheric communication with root parasitic plants and symbiotic fungi1. SL receptors in host and parasitic plants have recently been identified to be a group of α/β hydrolases2,3,4,5,6,7, but not in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which form symbiosis with more than 80% of land plants8.

10.1038/cr.2017.105

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