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Synthesis of an unusual alpha-zein protein is correlated with the phenotypic effects of the floury2 mutation in maize.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Dec 1994
Lopes M A, Coleman C E, Kodrzycki R, Lending C R, Larkins B A
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The soft, starchy endosperm of the maize (Zea mays L.) floury 2 mutant is associated with a reduction in zein mRNA and protein synthesis, unique protein body morphology, and enhanced levels of a 70 kDa protein, that has been shown to be the maize homolog of a chaperonin found in the endoplasmic reticulum. We found an unusual alpha-zein protein of 24 kDa to be consistently associated with the zein fraction from...
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