ADK — triticum aestivum

Summary

TRAESCS6B02G257900 (symbol ADK) on bread wheat chromosome 6B encodes an adenosine kinase (EC 2.7.1.20) with adenosine kinase activity, as well as annotated adenosylhomocysteinase and mRNA cap methyltransferase activities, and binds ATP, copper, mRNA, and proteins. The gene is associated with adenosine and purine salvage, mRNA capping, post-transcriptional gene silencing, coumarin and lignin biosynthesis, secondary cell wall biogenesis, DNA methylation-dependent heterochromatin assembly, and responses to trehalose-6-phosphate and wounding. It has been linked to seed yield, shoot branching, leaf growth, flowering time, cytokinin and auxin content, proline content, and stripe rust disease response. Localization evidence connects the product to the cytosol, nucleus, vacuole, apoplast, plasmodesma, and plasma membrane. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to transmethylation, adenylate metabolism, plant biomass, flowering time, and shoot branching.