Encodes a plastid isoform of the enzyme phosphoglucomutase involved in controlling photosynthetic carbon flow. Effective petiole movement against the direction of the gravity requires functional PGM activity that is required for full development of amyloplasts.
Computational Description
phosphoglucomutase (PGM); FUNCTIONS IN: phosphoglucomutase activity; INVOLVED IN: response to cold, starch biosynthetic process, detection of gravity, carbohydrate metabolic process; LOCATED IN: apoplast, stromule, chloroplast stroma, chloroplast, chloroplast envelope; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, C-terminal (InterPro:IPR005843), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, conserved site (InterPro:IPR016066), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, alpha/beta/alpha I/II/III (InterPro:IPR016055), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, alpha/beta/alpha domain III (InterPro:IPR005846), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, alpha/beta/alpha domain II (InterPro:IPR005845), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase (InterPro:IPR005841), Alpha-D-phosphohexomutase, alpha/beta/alpha domain I (InterPro:IPR005844); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Phosphoglucomutase/phosphomannomutase family protein (TAIR:AT1G70730.3); Has 12307 Blast hits to 12296 proteins in 2800 species: Archae - 231; Bacteria - 9586; Metazoa - 483; Fungi - 211; Plants - 168; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 1628 (source: NCBI BLink).
