title: PlaMoM: a comprehensive database compiles plant mobile macromolecules.
abstract: In plants, various phloem-mobile macromolecules including noncoding RNAs, mRNAs and proteins are suggested to act as important long-distance signals in regulating crucial physiological and morphological transition processes such as flowering, plant growth and stress responses. Given recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, numerous mobile macromolecules have been identified in diverse plant species from different plant families. However, most of the identified mobile macromolecules are not annotated in current versions of species-specific databases and are only available as non-searchable datasheets. To facilitate study of the mobile signaling macromolecules, we compiled the PlaMoM (Plant Mobile Macromolecules) database, a resource that provides convenient and interactive search tools allowing users to retrieve, to analyze and also to predict mobile RNAs/proteins. Each entry in the PlaMoM contains detailed information such as nucleotide/amino acid sequences, ortholog partners, related experiments, gene functions and literature. For the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, protein-protein interactions of mobile transcripts are presented as interactive molecular networks. Furthermore, PlaMoM provides a built-in tool to identify potential RNA mobility signals such as tRNA-like structures. The current version of PlaMoM compiles a total of 17 991 mobile macromolecules from 14 plant species/ecotypes from published data and literature. PlaMoM is available at http://www.systembioinfo.org/plamom/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.|School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.|Laboratory for Food Safety and Environmental Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Daogang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.affiliation: School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.|Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Integrated Bioinformedicine and Translational Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thieme
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Jingmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.|Laboratory for Food Safety and Environmental Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Hailong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Boheler
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Zhongying
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Institute of Integrated Bioinformedicine and Translational Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Kragler@mpimp-golm.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kragler
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong yxia@hkbu.edu.hk.|Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Am Mühlenberg 1,14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
authors.forename: Yiji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong szhang@hkbu.edu.hk.
authors.forename: Shoudong
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7332-7627
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D042541:Intracellular Space; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018749:RNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D057386:Search Engine
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D018749:RNA, Plant