Conservation of two lineages of peroxisomal (Type I) 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolases in land plants, specialization of the genes in Brassicaceae, and characterization of their expression in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Arabidopsis thaliana has three genes encoding type I 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolases (KAT1, KAT2, and KAT5), one of which (KAT5) is alternatively transcribed to produce both peroxisomal and cytosolic proteins. To evaluate the potential importance of these four gene products, their evolutionary history in plants and their expression patterns in Arabidopsis were investigated. Land plants as a whole have gene lineages...

Topics

• Acetyl-CoA C-Acyltransferase
• Alternative Splicing
• Amino Acid Sequence
• Arabidopsis
• Brassicaceae
• Computational Biology
• Consensus Sequence
• Cytosol
• Databases, Nucleic Acid
• Embryophyta
• Evolution, Molecular
• Fatty Acids
• Flowers