AKT1 — Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

Summary

BVRB_6G137130 (AKT1) on sugar beet chromosome 6 encodes a protein with ankyrin repeats and zinc-binding, annotated as a voltage-sensitive potassium channel and associated with ubiquitin ligase activity. This gene is linked to ion channel complex localisation at the plasmalemma, periarbuscular membrane, cytosol, and nucleus. It is associated with protein ubiquitination, response to oxidative stress, immune response, wound healing, phosphate ion detection, responses to symbiotic bacteria and fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizae formation, nodulation, keratinocyte proliferation, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to ubiquitin-protein transferase activity (EC 2.3.2.27), though this is not established for sugar beet AKT1 itself.