LAPA1 — Solanum lycopersicum

Summary

SOLYC12G010020.3, also known as LAPA1, encodes a protein with peptidase M17 family domains, and is annotated with aminopeptidase, metalloaminopeptidase, and protease activities, as well as a protein folding chaperone function, and binds manganese and magnesium ions. In tomato, this gene is associated with responses to water, hormones, and stimuli, plastid localization, peptide breakdown, hormone and cuticle anabolism, glutathione metabolism, and primary metabolism. It has been linked to agronomically important traits including fruit firmness, starch yield and content, sugar content, net photosynthetic rate, plant height, stem elongation, seed dormancy, and meristem and organ identity, as well as pathogen and wound responses. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to aminopeptidase activity (EC 3.4.11.1 and 3.4.11.5).