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Peroxisomal Acyl-CoA synthetase activity is essential for seedling development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2004
Fulda Martin, Schnurr Judy, Abbadi Amine, Heinz Ernst, Browse John
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In plants and other eukaryotes, long-chain acyl-CoAs are assumed to be imported into peroxisomes for beta-oxidation by an ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter. However, two genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, LACS6 and LACS7, encode peroxisomal long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase (LACS) isozymes. To investigate the biochemical and biological roles of peroxisomal LACS, we identified T-DNA knockout mutants for both genes....
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