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Molecular and functional analysis of phosphomannomutase (PMM) from higher plants and genetic evidence for the involvement of PMM in ascorbic acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Feb 2007
Qian Weiqiang, Yu Chunmei, Qin Huanju, Liu Xin, Zhang Aimin, Johansen Ida Elisabeth, Wang Daowen
Abstract excerpt
Phosphomannomutase (PMM) catalyzes the interconversion of mannose-6-phosphate and mannose-1-phosphate. However, systematic molecular and functional investigations on PMM from higher plants have hitherto not been reported. In this work, PMM cDNAs were isolated from Arabidopsis, Nicotiana benthamiana, soybean, tomato, rice and wheat. Amino acid sequence comparisons indicated that plant PMM proteins exhibited...
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