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An Arabidopsis pex10 Null Mutant Is Embryo Lethal, Implicating Peroxisomes in an Essential Role during Plant Embryogenesis
Imogen A. Sparkes,
Federica Brandizzi,
Steve Slocombe,
Mahmoud El-Shami,
Chris Hawes,
Alison Baker
Plant Physiology, Volume: 133, Issue: 4, Pages: 1809 - 1819
Swansea University Author: Steve Slocombe
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DOI (Published version): 10.1104/pp.103.031252
Abstract
Peroxisomes participate in many important functions in plants, including seed reserve mobilization, photorespiration, defense against oxidative stress, and auxin and jasmonate signaling. In mammals, defects in peroxisome biogenesis result in multiple system abnormalities, severe developmental delay,...
| Published in: | Plant Physiology |
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| ISSN: | 0032-0889 1532-2548 |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2003
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65486 |
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Peroxisomes participate in many important functions in plants, including seed reserve mobilization, photorespiration, defense against oxidative stress, and auxin and jasmonate signaling. In mammals, defects in peroxisome biogenesis result in multiple system abnormalities, severe developmental delay, and death, whereas in unicellular yeasts, peroxisomes are dispensable unless required for growth of specific substrates. PEX10 encodes an integral membrane protein required for peroxisome biogenesis in mammals and yeast. To investigate the importance of PEX10 in plants, we characterized a Ds insertion mutant in the PEX10 gene of Arabidopsis (AtPEX10). Heterozygous AtPEX10::dissociation element mutants show normal vegetative phenotypes under optimal growth conditions, but produce about 20% abnormal seeds. The embryos in the abnormal seeds are predominantly homozygous for the disruption allele. They show retarded development and some morphological abnormalities. No viable homozygous mutant plants were obtained. AtPEX10 fused to yellow fluorescent protein colocalized with green fluorescent protein-serine-lysine-leucine, a well-documented peroxisomal marker, suggesting that AtPEX10 encodes a peroxisomal protein that is essential for normal embryo development and viability. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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4 |
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1809 |
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1819 |