tm-2 — Solanum lycopersicum

Summary

SOLYC09G092290.1, symbol tm-2 on tomato chromosome 9, encodes a protein with NB-ARC, AAA+ ATPase, and leucine-rich repeat domains characteristic of plant disease resistance proteins. The gene is associated with defense responses to other organisms, immune response, antiviral response, innate immunity, and programmed cell death, including hypersensitive response cell death. It is also linked to signal transduction, localization, and immune evasion. The encoded protein is associated with the cytoplasm, membrane, and plasmalemma, and binds ADP, ATP, and metal ions. Additionally, tm-2 is associated with sugar content. Related genes in other species, such as potato, link the family to pathogen recognition, and sequence similarity connections also associate the family with heterosis.