Gene Details:

• Gene ID: AT3G06960
• Gene Symbol: PDE320, TGD4
• Gene Name: PIGMENT DEFECTIVE 320, TRIGALACTOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL 4
• Description: pigment defective 320;(source:Araport11)
• TAIR Accession:
• Genome: Araport11_genome_release
• Species: Arabidopsis thaliana

Transcripts:

• AT3G06960.1     AT3G06960.2

Germplasm Phenotype:

• tgd4-1  — The tgd4-1 plant is slightly pale green but otherwise indistinguishable from the wild type.
• tgd4-2  — Plants carrying the tgd4-2 T-DNA insertion allele were stunted, pale yellow in color, and infertile.
• tgd4-3  — The tgd4-3 plant is slightly pale green but otherwise indistinguishable from the wild type.

Literature:

• Lipid trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and the plastid in Arabidopsis requires the extraplastidic TGD4 protein.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.108.061176 ;  PMID:  18689504
• Mutations of the ER to plastid lipid transporters TGD1, 2, 3 and 4 and the ER oleate desaturase FAD2 suppress the low temperature-induced phenotype of Arabidopsis tocopherol-deficient mutant vte2.   DOI:  10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04212.x ;  PMID:  20345604
• Lipid transport mediated by Arabidopsis TGD proteins is unidirectional from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plastid.   DOI:  10.1093/pcp/pcq053 ;  PMID:  20410050
• The phosphatidic acid binding site of the Arabidopsis trigalactosyldiacylglycerol 4 (TGD4) protein required for lipid import into chloroplasts.   DOI:  10.1074/jbc.M112.438986 ;  PMID:  23297418
• Acyl-lipid metabolism.   DOI:  10.1199/tab.0161 ;  PMID:  23505340
• Arabidopsis TRIGALACTOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL5 Interacts with TGD1, TGD2, and TGD4 to Facilitate Lipid Transfer from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Plastids.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.15.00394 ;  PMID:  26410300
• Sorting signals, N-terminal modifications and abundance of the chloroplast proteome.   DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0001994 ;  PMID:  18431481
• Sorting signals, N-terminal modifications and abundance of the chloroplast proteome.   DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0001994 ;  PMID:  18431481
• Lipid trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and the plastid in Arabidopsis requires the extraplastidic TGD4 protein.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.108.061176 ;  PMID:  18689504

Sequences: