ACT7 — Cicer arietinum

Summary

LOC101503086 (ACT7) on chickpea chromosome 5 encodes an actin protein, a structural constituent of the cytoskeleton that also exhibits ATP binding, hydrolase activity, and protein phosphorylated amino acid binding. In chickpea, ACT7 is associated with cytoskeleton organization, endocytosis, intracellular transport, secretion, and Golgi-to-plasma membrane transport, as well as root epidermal cell differentiation, seed development and germination, leaf senescence, response to wounding, light stimulus, and oxidative stress, and host invasion. The gene is linked to seedling growth and development, leaf composition, organ identity, nitrate uptake, callus formation, salt stress adaptation, polar auxin transport, disease resistance, and plant fitness. ACT7 localizes to the actin cytoskeleton, plasmodesmata, chloroplast envelope and stroma, plant-type cell wall and vacuole, nucleolus, and Golgi complex. Related genes in other species are associated with actin filament organization, chloroplast clustering, organ size, and calcium signaling.