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Disruption of plE2, the gene for the E2 subunit of the plastid pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, in Arabidopsis causes an early embryo lethal phenotype.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jul 2003
Lin Ming, Behal Robert, Oliver David J
Abstract excerpt
The pyruvate dehydrogenase multi-enzyme complex is the main source of acetyl-CoA formation in the plastids of plants and is composed of multiple copies of four different subunits, E1alpha, E1beta, E2, and E3. A T-DNA insertion into the gene for the plastidic E2 (dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase) subunit, plE2, of the complex in Arabidopsis destroys the expression of that gene. The resulting mutation has no...
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