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An Arabidopsis aspartic protease functions as an anti-cell-death component in reproduction and embryogenesis.
EMBO reports - 1 Mar 2005
Ge Xiaochun, Dietrich Charles, Matsuno Michiyo, Li Guojing, Berg Howard, Xia Yiji
Abstract excerpt
The components and pathways that regulate and execute developmental cell death programmes in plants remain largely unknown. We have found that the PROMOTION OF CELL SURVIVAL 1 (PCS1) gene in Arabidopsis, which encodes an aspartic protease, has an important role in determining the fate of cells in embryonic development and in reproduction processes. The loss-of-function mutation of PCS1 causes degeneration of both...
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