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In the present study, we show that cyanide, a \u03c0-acceptor compound and structural analogue of ethylene, is a suitable substitute for the plant hormone for in vitro studies with purified proteins. Recombinant ethylene receptor protein ETR1 (ethylene-resistant 1) showed high level and selective binding of [14C]cyanide in the presence of copper, a known cofactor in ethylene binding. Replacement of Cys65 in the ethylene-binding domain by serine dramatically reduced binding of radiolabelled cyanide. In contrast with wild-type ETR1, autokinase activity of the receptor is not reduced in the ETR1-C65S mutant upon addition of cyanide. Additionally, protein\u2013protein interaction with the ethylene signalling protein EIN2 (ethylene-insensitive 2) is considerably sustained by cyanide in wild-type ETR1, but is not affected in the mutant. Further evidence for the structural and functional equivalence of ethylene and cyanide is given by the fact that the ethylene-responsive antagonist silver, which is known to allow ligand binding but prevent intrinsic signal transduction, also allows specific binding of cyanide, but shows no effect on autokinase activity and ETR1\u2013EIN2 interaction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1042\/bj20111447","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,3,7]],"date-time":"2012-03-07T09:15:28Z","timestamp":1331111728000},"page":"261-267","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1042\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Cyanide is an adequate agonist of the plant hormone ethylene for studying signalling of sensor kinase ETR1 at the molecular level"],"prefix":"10.1042","volume":"444","author":[{"given":"Melanie\u00a0M.\u00a0A.","family":"Bisson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Biochemical Plant Physiology, Heinrich-Heine University, Universit\u00e4tsstrasse 1, 40225 D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Georg","family":"Groth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Biochemical Plant Physiology, Heinrich-Heine University, Universit\u00e4tsstrasse 1, 40225 D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"288","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021112217313354200_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"283","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.pp.44.060193.001435","article-title":"Ethylene biosynthesis","volume":"44","author":"Kende","year":"1993","journal-title":"Annu. 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