Isolation and Characterization of a myo-inositol-1-phosphate Synthase Gene from Yellow Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa) Expressed During Seed Development and Environmental Stress
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...PCRs were carried out as described [ 62 ], except that 20 ng of cDNA was used as a template, in reactions with 32 cycles of amplification....
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...Myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase is a key rate limiting enzyme of inositol biosynthesis (Abreu and Arag~ao, 2007)....
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...4) is a key rate limiting enzyme of myo-inositol biosynthesis which catalyses the reaction from glucose-6-phosphate (G-6-P) to myo-inositol-1-phosphate (Ins1P), which is subsequently dephosphorylated by myo-inositol monophosphatase (MIPP) to form free inositol (Abreu and Arag~ao, 2007)....
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...MIPS catalyses the conversion of D-glucose 6-phosphate to 1-myo-inositol-1phosphate, the first and rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of all inositol containing compounds (Abreu and Aragao 2007)....
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...MIPS is the first enzyme in a metabolic pathway to D-pinitol, which is a cyclic sugar alcohol involved in the tolerance of drought stress that accumulates to higher concentrations in salt-tolerant legumes (Bohnert and Sheveleva, 1998; Bray et al., 2000)....
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...In addition, myo-inositol polyphosphates participate in chromatin remodelling, gene expression and mRNA export (Odom et al., 2000; Shen et al., 2003)....
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...…a precursor to compounds connected to essential cellular functions, such as phosphorus storage, signal transduction, actin remodelling, membrane trafficking, stress protection, hormonal homoeostasis and cell wall biosynthesis (Loewus and Murthy, 2000; Stevenson et al., 2000; Downes et al., 2005)....
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...Inositol phospholipids play a vital role in membrane trafficking and signalling pathways, auxin storage and transport, phytic acid biosynthesis, cell wall biosynthesis and production of stress-related molecules (Loewus, 1990; Loewus and Murthy, 2000; Stevenson et al., 2000; Downes et al., 2005)....
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...In addition, data from 15 EST libraries showed that GmMIPS1 is the preferred gene of the seed, although it is expressed in other tissue types, while GmMIPS2 is expressed in many tissues but not in developing seeds (Hitz et al., 2002)....
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...The inositol phosphate biosynthesis pathway in developing seeds is poorly understood (Hitz et al., 2002; Shi et al., 2005)....
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