In silico and expression analyses of fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins reveal functional conservation during embryo and seed development.

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The fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins organization into four groups is conserved and may be related to specific roles in developmental processes across angiosperms. Fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins (FLAs) are a subclass of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs), which contain fasciclin-like domains in addition to typical AGP domains. FLAs are present across all embryophytes, and despite their low overall sequence similarity, conserved regions that define the fasciclin functional domain (FAS) have been identified, suggesting that the cell adhesion property is also conserved. FLAs in Arabidopsis have been organized into four subgroups according to the number and distribution of functional domains. Recent studies associated FLAs with cell wall-related processes where

SUBMITTER: Costa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820600 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature