Regulation of the amount of starch in plant tissues by ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase

DM Stark, KP Timmerman, GF Barry, J Preiss… - Science, 1992 - science.org
Starch, a major storage metabolite in plants, positively affects the agricultural yield of a
number of crops. Its biosynthetic reactions use adenosine diphosphate glucose (ADPGlc) as …

Chloroplast protein topogenesis: import, sorting and assembly

AD de Boer, PJ Weisbeek - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 1991 - Elsevier
Abbreviations: DHFR, dihydrofolate reductase; LHCP-II, light harvesting complex protein of
photosystem II; pmf, proton-motive force; PSI, photosystem I; PSII, photosystem If; rubisco …

Proteomic survey of metabolic pathways in rice

A Koller, MP Washburn, BM Lange… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
A systematic proteomic analysis of rice (Oryza sativa) leaf, root, and seed tissue using two
independent technologies, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by tandem mass …

AGPase: its role in crop productivity with emphasis on heat tolerance in cereals

G Saripalli, PK Gupta - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2015 - Springer
Key message AGPase, a key enzyme of starch biosynthetic pathway, has a significant role in
crop productivity. Thermotolerant variants of AGPase in cereals may be used for developing …

One of two different ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes from potato responds strongly to elevated levels of sucrose

BT Müller-Röber, J Koßmann, LC Hannah… - Molecular and General …, 1990 - Springer
The key regulatory step in starch biosynthesis is catalyzed by the tetrameric enzyme ADP-
glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase). In leaf and storage tissue, the enzyme catalyzes the …

Alteration of the structural properties of starch components by the lack of an isoform of starch branching enzyme in rice seeds.

K Mizuno, T Kawasaki, H Shimada, H Satoh… - Journal of Biological …, 1993 - Elsevier
This study describes the effect of starch-synthesizing enzymes on biosynthesis of storage
starch in rice amylose-extender mutants, which contain branched D-glucans with abnormal …

Fertile transgenic corn plants

RC Lundquist, DA Walters, JA Kirihara - US Patent 6,160,208, 2000 - Google Patents
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Comparison of proteins of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from diverse sources

BJ Smith-White, J Preiss - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1992 - Springer
The primary structures of 11 proteins of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase are aligned and
compared for relationships among them. These comparisons indicate that many domains …

Gene expression of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and starch contents in rice cultured cells are cooperatively regulated by sucrose and ABA

T Akihiro, K Mizuno, T Fujimura - Plant and cell physiology, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Six cDNA clones encoding two small subunits and four large subunits of ADP-glucose
pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) were mined from the database of rice full-length cDNAs …

ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in shrunken-2 and brittle-2 mutants of maize

MJ Giroux, LC Hannah - Molecular and General Genetics MGG, 1994 - Springer
Abstract The Shrunken-2 (Sh2) and Brittle-2 (Bt2) genes of maize encode subunits of the
tetrameric maize endosperm ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase. However in all sh2 and bt2 …