TPI — Cicer arietinum

Summary

LOC101508592 (CaTPI, TPI) on chickpea chromosome 1 encodes a triose-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme with triose-phosphate isomerase activity that also binds copper. The gene is associated with glycolytic process, gluconeogenesis, the reductive pentose-phosphate cycle, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate anabolism, glycerol breakdown, carbohydrate metabolism, seed germination, cell death, programmed cell death, flocculation, response to water, response to zinc, and NO storage. Its product localises to the cytosol, cytoplasm, chloroplast stroma, mitochondria, apoplast, plant-type cell wall, plant-type vacuole, plasmodesma, and plasmalemma. CaTPI is linked to plant dry weight and chlorophyll content, and to autophagy regulation. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to sugar metabolism, seed maturation, and root length.