member of Alpha-Expansin Gene Family. Naming convention from the Expansin Working Group (Kende et al, 2004. Plant Mol Bio). Involved in the formation of nematode-induced syncytia in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Computational Description
expansin A15 (EXPA15); INVOLVED IN: plant-type cell wall modification involved in multidimensional cell growth, syncytium formation, unidimensional cell growth, plant-type cell wall loosening; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system, extracellular region; EXPRESSED IN: 25 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Pollen allergen, N-terminal (InterPro:IPR014734), Rare lipoprotein A (InterPro:IPR005132), Pollen allergen/expansin, C-terminal (InterPro:IPR007117), Barwin-related endoglucanase (InterPro:IPR009009), Expansin (InterPro:IPR002963), Expansin/Lol pI (InterPro:IPR007118), Expansin 45, endoglucanase-like (InterPro:IPR007112); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: expansin A1 (TAIR:AT1G69530.2); Has 30201 Blast hits to 17322 proteins in 780 species: Archae - 12; Bacteria - 1396; Metazoa - 17338; Fungi - 3422; Plants - 5037; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2996 (source: NCBI BLink).
