MEE51 — Solanum tuberosum

Summary

StMEE51 (PGSC0003DMG400016726) on potato chromosome 2 encodes a protein with PfpB_PPi_PFK, ATP_PFK, Phosphofructokinase_dom, and PKF_sf domains, and has diphosphate-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase activity (EC 2.7.1.90), 6-phosphofructokinase activity, ATP binding, metal binding, and protein phosphorylated amino acid binding. The gene is associated with fructose 6-phosphate metabolism, starch anabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, response to glucose, brassinosteroid-mediated signalling, homologous recombination, DNA repair, seedling and embryo development, and NO storage. It has been linked to starch yield, starch content, sucrose content, drought tolerance, root morphology, and leaf hydraulic conductivity. The product localises to the cytosol, nucleus, chloroplast stroma, mitochondria, plasmodesma, plasmalemma, and plant-type cell wall. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to photochemical quenching.