Encodes ribosomal protein L9. Identified in a screen for enhancers of as1. as1/pgy double mutants show defects in leaf vascular patterning and adaxial cell fate. Double mutant analysis indicates pgy genes function in the same pathway as REV, KAN1 and KAN2.
Computational Description
PIGGYBACK2 (PGY2); FUNCTIONS IN: structural constituent of ribosome, rRNA binding; INVOLVED IN: adaxial/abaxial pattern formation, translation; LOCATED IN: cytosolic large ribosomal subunit, vacuole, large ribosomal subunit, membrane, chloroplast envelope; EXPRESSED IN: 7 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: L mature pollen stage, M germinated pollen stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Ribosomal protein L6 (InterPro:IPR000702), Ribosomal protein L6, alpha-beta domain (InterPro:IPR020040), Ribosomal protein L6, conserved site-2 (InterPro:IPR002359); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Ribosomal protein L6 family (TAIR:AT1G33120.1); Has 1644 Blast hits to 1643 proteins in 495 species: Archae - 312; Bacteria - 169; Metazoa - 422; Fungi - 179; Plants - 339; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 223 (source: NCBI BLink).
