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Functional divergence of a pair of Arabidopsis phospho-base methyltransferases, PMT1 and PMT3, conferred by distinct N-terminal sequences.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 May 2022
Liu Yu-Chi, Tan Yue-Rong, Chang Chin-Wen, Nguyen Van C, Kanehara Kazue, Kobayashi Koichi, Nakamura Yuki
Abstract excerpt
In seed plants, phospho-base N-methyltransferase (PMT) catalyzes a key step in the biosynthesis pathway of phosphatidylcholine (PC), the most abundant phospholipid class. Arabidopsis thaliana possesses three copies of PMT, with PMT1 and PMT3 play a primary role because the pmt1 pmt3 double mutant shows considerably reduced PC content with a pale seedling phenotype. Although the function of PMT1 and PMT3 may be...
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