The revealing of a novel lipid transfer protein lineage in green algae.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are a group of small and basic proteins that can bind and transfer various lipid molecules to the apoplastic space. A typical nsLTP carries a conserved architecture termed eight-cysteine motif (8CM), a scaffold of loop-linked helices folding into a hydrophobic cavity for lipids binding. Encoded by a multigene family, nsLTPs are widely distributed in terrestrial plants from bryophytes to angiosperms with dozens of gene members in a single species. Although the nsLTPs in the most primitive plants such as Marchantia already reach 14 members and are divergent enough to form separate groups, so far none have been identified in any species of green algae.

Results

By using a refined searching strategy, we identified putative

SUBMITTER: Huang MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9832785 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature