Gene Details:

• Gene ID: AT4G23920
• Gene Symbol: ATUGE2, UGE2
• Gene Name: UDP-GLC 4-EPIMERASE 2, UDP-D-glucose/UDP-D-galactose 4-epimerase 2
• Description: UDP-D-glucose/UDP-D-galactose 4-epimerase 2;(source:Araport11)
• TAIR Accession: locus:2138121
• Genome: Araport11_genome_release
• Species: Arabidopsis thaliana

Transcripts:

• AT4G23920.1

Plant Ontology Annotations:

• PO:0009005  — root — raíz (Spanish, exact), radices (exact, plural), radix (exact), 根 (Japanese, exact), aerial root (narrow), climbing root (narrow)
• PO:0020123  — root cap — caliptra de la raíz (Spanish, exact), rootcap (exact), 根冠（＝kalyptra) (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0000037  — shoot axis apex — ápice del epiblasto (epiblastema) (Spanish, exact), シュート頂、茎頂 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0008019  — leaf lamina base — base de la lámina de la hoja (Spanish, exact), 葉身基部 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0009006  — shoot system — sistema de epiblasto (epiblastema) (Spanish, exact), シュート系、苗条系 (Japanese, exact), Poaceae crown (related), shoot (related), thalli (related), thallus (related), tree crown (narrow)
• PO:0009009  — plant embryo — embrión (Spanish, exact), 植物胚 (Japanese, exact), germ (related), embryo (broad)
• PO:0009025  — vascular leaf — foliage leaf (exact), hoja vascular (Spanish, exact), leaf, vascular (exact), vascular leaves (exact, plural), 維管束のある葉, または維管束植物の葉 (Japanese, exact), crozier (related), macrophyll (related), megaphyll (related), ascidia (narrow), ascidium (narrow), fiddlehead (narrow), frond (narrow), needle-like leaf (narrow), pitcher (narrow), pitcher blade (narrow), pitcher-blade (narrow), scale-like leaf (narrow), sterile frond (narrow), trophophyll (narrow)
• PO:0009029  — stamen — estambre (Spanish, exact), 雄蕊 (Japanese, exact), Poaceae stamen (narrow), Zea stamen (narrow)
• PO:0009031  — sepal — sépalo (Spanish, exact), がく片 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0009046  — flower — flor (Spanish, exact), 花 (Japanese, exact), floret (related), Asteraceae floret (narrow), basal flower (narrow), double flower (narrow), hermaphrodite flower (narrow), monoclinous flower (narrow), perfect flower (narrow)
• PO:0009052  — inflorescence flower pedicel — 小花柄 (Japanese, related), pedicelo (Spanish, broad)
• PO:0020030  — cotyledon — cotiledón (Spanish, exact), seed leaf (exact), 子葉 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0020038  — petiole — pecíolo (Spanish, exact), 葉柄 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0020100  — hypocotyl — hipocótile (Spanish, exact), 胚軸 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0020137  — leaf apex — ápice de la hoja (Spanish, exact), 葉先 (Japanese, exact), leaf lamina apex (narrow), phyllid apex (narrow)
• PO:0025022  — collective leaf structure — estructura colectiva de hoja (Spanish, exact), leaf series (exact), 葉が集まった構造 (Japanese, exact), leaf whorl (narrow), rosette (narrow), cycle (broad), verticil (broad)
• PO:0025281  — pollen — polen (Spanish, exact), pollen grain (exact), 花粉 (Japanese, exact)
• PO:0006020  — lateral root apical meristem — meristema apical de la raíz lateral (Spanish, exact), 側根頂端分裂組織 (Japanese, exact), apical meristem of lateral root (related), lateral root meristem (related)
• PO:0020131  — lateral root cap — caliptra lateral de la raíz (Spanish, exact), 側根冠 (Japanese, exact), peripheral cells (related)
• PO:0000293  — guard cell — célula guardiana (Spanish, exact), occlusive cell (exact), 孔辺細胞 (Japanese, exact)

Gene Ontology:

• GO:0046983  — enables — protein dimerization activity
• GO:0003978  — enables — UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity
• GO:0005829  — is active in — cytosol
• GO:0006364  — involved in — rRNA processing
• GO:0006012  — involved in — galactose metabolic process
• GO:1901149  — enables — salicylic acid binding
• GO:0042546  — acts upstream of or within — cell wall biogenesis
• GO:0005829  — located in — cytosol
• GO:0003723  — enables — RNA binding

Function-related keywords:

• root ,  root cap ,  shoot axis apex ,  leaf lamina base ,  shoot system ,  plant embryo ,  vascular leaf ,  stamen ,  sepal ,  flower ,  inflorescence flower pedicel ,  cotyledon ,  petiole ,  hypocotyl ,  leaf apex ,  collective leaf structure ,  pollen ,  lateral root apical meristem ,  lateral root cap ,  guard cell

Literature:

• The biosynthesis of D-Galacturonate in plants. functional cloning and characterization of a membrane-anchored UDP-D-Glucuronate 4-epimerase from Arabidopsis.   DOI:  10.1104/pp.104.043745 ;  PMID:  15247385
• Identification of novel heat shock factor-dependent genes and biochemical pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana.   DOI:  10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02272.x ;  PMID:  15610345
• The reb1-1 mutation of Arabidopsis. Effect on the structure and localization of galactose-containing cell wall polysaccharides.   DOI:  10.1104/pp.105.074997 ;  PMID:  16500990
• Distinct properties of the five UDP-D-glucose/UDP-D-galactose 4-epimerase isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana.   DOI:  10.1074/jbc.M512727200 ;  PMID:  16644739
• Bifunctional cytosolic UDP-glucose 4-epimerases catalyse the interconversion between UDP-D-xylose and UDP-L-arabinose in plants.   DOI:  10.1042/BJ20091025 ;  PMID:  19754426
• Differentiation of Arabidopsis guard cells: analysis of the networks incorporating the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor, FAMA.   DOI:  10.1104/pp.110.167718 ;  PMID:  21245191
• A gene stacking approach leads to engineered plants with highly increased galactan levels in Arabidopsis.   DOI:  10.1186/s12870-014-0344-x ;  PMID:  25492673
• Identification of multiple salicylic acid-binding proteins using two high throughput screens.   DOI:  10.3389/fpls.2014.00777 ;  PMID:  25628632
• Gene stacking of multiple traits for high yield of fermentable sugars in plant biomass.   DOI:  10.1186/s13068-017-1007-6 ;  PMID:  29321811
• Functional expression of uridine 5'-diphospho-glucose 4-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.2) from Arabidopsis thaliana in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli.   DOI:  10.1006/abbi.1996.0088 ;  PMID:  8615692
• Molecular genetics of nucleotide sugar interconversion pathways in plants.   DOI:  NA ;  PMID:  11554483
• Growth regulators and the control of nucleotide sugar flux.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.019661 ;  PMID:  14973160
• UDP-glucose 4-epimerase isoforms UGE2 and UGE4 cooperate in providing UDP-galactose for cell wall biosynthesis and growth of Arabidopsis thaliana.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.106.049619 ;  PMID:  17496119

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