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Cyclic nucleotide gated channels 7 and 8 are essential for male reproductive fertility.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Tunc-Ozdemir Meral, Rato Claudia, Brown Elizabeth, Rogers Stephanie, Mooneyham Amanda, Frietsch Sabine, Myers Candace T, Poulsen Lisbeth Rosager, Malhó Rui, Harper Jeffrey F
Abstract excerpt
The Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains 20 CNGCs, which are proposed to encode cyclic nucleotide gated, non-selective, Ca²⁺-permeable ion channels. CNGC7 and CNGC8 are the two most similar with 74% protein sequence identity, and both genes are preferentially expressed in pollen. Two independent loss-of-function T-DNA insertions were identified for both genes and used to generate plant lines in which only one of...
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