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Characterization Of Udp-Arabinopyranose Mutase Genes In The Arabidopsis Cell Wall Mutant Mur5, Christopher A. Hart
Characterization Of Udp-Arabinopyranose Mutase Genes In The Arabidopsis Cell Wall Mutant Mur5, Christopher A. Hart
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The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains several coding regions for UDP-arabinopyranose mutases (UAMs) that are also known as reversibly glycosylated polypeptides (RGPs). The mur5 cell wall mutant of Arabidopsis shows a 30% decrease in cell wall arabinose content, and a missense mutation in the Reversibly Glycosylated Polypeptide 2 gene was recently proposed to cause this mutant phenotype. Through a traditional complementation analysis, mur5 and a T-DNA insertion mutant in the RGP2 gene were shown not to complement each other, indicating that the two genes are mutant alleles of the same locus. The mur5 SNP located in RGP2 caused a more …