Encodes an enzyme putatively involved in trehalose biosynthesis. The protein has a trehalose synthase (TPS)-like domain but no trehalose phosphatase (TPP)-like domain. ATTPS1 is able to complement yeast tps1 mutants in vivo. The gene product modulates cell growth but not cell differentiation by determining cell wall deposition and cell division.
Computational Description
trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS1); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Alpha,alpha-trehalose-phosphate synthase (InterPro:IPR012766), Glycosyl transferase, family 20 (InterPro:IPR001830), Trehalose-phosphatase (InterPro:IPR003337); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: trehalose-phosphatase/synthase 2 (TAIR:AT1G16980.1); Has 6189 Blast hits to 3807 proteins in 1021 species: Archae - 45; Bacteria - 1772; Metazoa - 831; Fungi - 808; Plants - 384; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2349 (source: NCBI BLink).