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Vacuolar processing enzyme plays an essential role in the crystalline structure of glutelin in rice seed.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jan 2010
Kumamaru Toshihiro, Uemura Yuji, Inoue Yoshimi, Takemoto Yoko, Siddiqui Sadar Uddin, Ogawa Masahiro, Hara-Nishimura Ikuko, Satoh Hikaru
Abstract excerpt
To identify the function of genes that regulate the processing of proglutelin, we performed an analysis of glup3 mutants, which accumulates excess amounts of proglutelin and lack the vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE). VPE activity in developing seeds from glup3 lines was reduced remarkably compared with the wild type. DNA sequencing of the VPE gene in glup3 mutants revealed either amino acid substitutions or the...
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