Share high homologies with a group of pectin methylesterases (PME), pollen specific, and is required for enhancing the growth of pollen tube in style and transmitting tract tissues.
Computational Description
VANGUARD1 (VGD1); FUNCTIONS IN: enzyme inhibitor activity, pectinesterase activity; INVOLVED IN: pollen tube growth; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system, cell wall, plant-type cell wall; EXPRESSED IN: male gametophyte, flower, pollen tube; EXPRESSED DURING: L mature pollen stage, M germinated pollen stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Pectinesterase, active site (InterPro:IPR018040), Pectin lyase fold/virulence factor (InterPro:IPR011050), Pectinesterase, catalytic (InterPro:IPR000070), Pectinesterase inhibitor (InterPro:IPR006501), Pectin lyase fold (InterPro:IPR012334); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Plant invertase/pectin methylesterase inhibitor superfamily (TAIR:AT2G47030.1); Has 2977 Blast hits to 2908 proteins in 464 species: Archae - 6; Bacteria - 891; Metazoa - 1; Fungi - 197; Plants - 1856; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 26 (source: NCBI BLink).
