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A mutation in an Arabidopsis ribose 5-phosphate isomerase reduces cellulose synthesis and is rescued by exogenous uridine.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Nov 2006
Howles Paul A, Birch Rosemary J, Collings David A, Gebbie Leigh K, Hurley Ursula A, Hocart Charles H, Arioli Tony, Williamson Richard E
Abstract excerpt
The Arabidopsis radial swelling mutant rsw10 showed ballooning of root trichoblasts, a lower than wild-type level of cellulose and altered levels of some monosaccharides in non-cellulosic polysaccharides. Map-based cloning showed that the mutated gene (At1g71100) encodes a ribose 5-phosphate isomerase (RPI) and that the rsw10 mutation replaces a conserved glutamic acid residue with lysine. Although RPI is...
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