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Genomics of plant ABC transporters: The alphabet of photosynthetic life forms or just holes in membranes?
Author(s) -
Schulz Burkhard,
Kolukisaoglu H. Üner
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.002
Subject(s) - arabidopsis , atp binding cassette transporter , biology , genome , computational biology , genomics , arabidopsis thaliana , transporter , whole genome sequencing , genetics , gene , mutant
The large number of ABC transporters in the Arabidopsis genome was made responsible for known as well as unexpected aspects in plant development. The combination of classical transport experiments with functional genomics approaches helped unravel some of these effects. Yet questions concerning the importance of this large number of ABC transporters in eukaryotic photosynthesizing organisms remain open. Phylogenomic analyses of whole genome sequence data reveal comparable sizes and composition between algae and higher plants within this protein family. Although this indicates the significance of ABC transporters in plants, several other questions remain to be answered.