Insulin in plants

[anjalik]

Recently I came across a few papers describing presence of insulin in plants.

Can anybody speculate about the role of insulin in plants?

Anjalik

[JackBean]

Yes, anybody can speculate about the role of insulin in plants 🙂 😀

[MrMistery]

Can you please provide a link to the those papers? As far as I know the closest thing plants have to insulin is auxin signaling, which has similar transduction pathways to insulin signaling.

[MrsSpoonbill]

Is it possible that these papers have misspelt INULIN, the widely-distributed plant storage carbohydrate (found in Jerusalem artichoke, for example)? The Wikipedia article on inulin is pretty good.

[anjalik]

Hi,

No, inulin is totally different. I mean insulin only.

I don’t have the weblink of the paper. If you are interested I can send the pdf copy to your personal e-mail. Pl. let me know.

Here are the paper details. Maybe you can download.

Isolation and intracellular localization of insulin-like proteins from leaves of
Bauhinia variegata

Brazilian J. Med & Biol. Res.(2006) 39: 1435-1444

[JackBean]

Well, I have acces to libraries of three Universities worlwide, but I don’t think, I will be able to access Brazilian journal 😀

EDIT
ahh, I have checked it out and it’s actually freely available, so this link:
http://tinyurl.com/insulin-in-plants
shall take you to the abstract. Also full text shall be available.

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