TY - JOUR AU - Berhin, Anne AB - Plant Molecular Biology 16: 349-351, 1991. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in Belgium. Plant Molecular Biology Update Isolation and sequence analysis of a cDNA clone encoding a subunit of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase of potato tuber amyloplasts Patrick du Jardin and Anne Berhin Genetics and Plant Improvement Unit, Faculty of Agronomical Sciences, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium Received 15 October 1990; accepted 24 October 1990 ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (ATP: a-glu- served between this site and the deduced amino cose-l-P adenylyl-transferase, EC 2.2.7.27) cata- acid sequence of a rice endosperm cDNA [7]. In lyses the activation of glucose- l-P into ADP-glu- order to isolate cDNA clones coding for the cose, a rate-limiting step in starch biosynthesis potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, [8, 13, 14]. The potato tuber enzyme is composed we postulated that the same consensus were present in the tuber enzyme. Indeed, the potato of two distinct subunits [ 10] and is located in the tuber enzyme has been extensively purified amyloplast [6]. This subunit composition and the [18, 10] and shown to be activated in vitro by plastid location characterize all plant ADP-glu- 3-P-glycerate [ 18]. A 32-mer oligonucleotide was cose pyrophosphorylases studied so far, including synthesized, corresponding to the 11 conserved TI - Isolation and sequence analysis of a cDNA clone encoding a subunit of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase of potato tuber amyloplasts JF - Plant Molecular Biology DO - 10.1007/BF00020568 DA - 2004-04-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/isolation-and-sequence-analysis-of-a-cdna-clone-encoding-a-subunit-of-G3pD3i6GCL SP - 349 EP - 351 VL - 16 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -