Abstract
A full-length cDNA encoding a subunit of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) was isolated from a developing seed expression library of the C3 plant Glycine max. The corresponding mRNA is present at similar levels in leaf, stem, root and developing seed. Two potential start codons exist, and the activity of protein initiated from the first such codon could be subject to regulation by protein kinase. Sequence comparison shows a similar upstream start codon in the case of the Ppc2 gene from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, previously assumed to lack the sequences necessary for phosphorylation. The soybean encoded protein tends to resemble other ‘C3-type’ PEPC proteins more closely than those implicated in C4 or crassulacean acid metabolism.
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Sugimoto, T., Kawasaki, T., Kato, T. et al. cDNA sequence and expression of a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene from soybean. Plant Mol Biol 20, 743–747 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00046459
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