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Sterol Methyl Oxidases Affect Embryo Development via Auxin-Associated Mechanisms.
Plant physiology - 1 May 2016
Zhang Xia, Sun Shuangli, Nie Xiang, Boutté Yohann, Grison Magali, Li Panpan, Kuang Susu, Men Shuzhen
Abstract excerpt
Sterols are essential molecules for multiple biological processes, including embryogenesis, cell elongation, and endocytosis. The plant sterol biosynthetic pathway is unique in the involvement of two distinct sterol 4α-methyl oxidase (SMO) families, SMO1 and SMO2, which contain three and two isoforms, respectively, and are involved in sequential removal of the two methyl groups at C-4. In this study, we...
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