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Arabidopsis 10-formyl tetrahydrofolate deformylases are essential for photorespiration.
The Plant cell - 1 Jul 2008
Collakova Eva, Goyer Aymeric, Naponelli Valeria, Krassovskaya Inga, Gregory Jesse F, Hanson Andrew D, Shachar-Hill Yair
Abstract excerpt
In prokaryotes, PurU (10-formyl tetrahydrofolate [THF] deformylase) metabolizes 10-formyl THF to formate and THF for purine and Gly biosyntheses. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains two putative purU genes, At4g17360 and At5g47435. Knocking out these genes simultaneously results in plants that are smaller and paler than the wild type. These double knockout (dKO) mutant plants show a 70-fold increase in Gly...
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