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ArticleThe Plant cell2003

An Arabidopsis mutant resistant to thaxtomin A, a cellulose synthesis inhibitor from Streptomyces species.

Wolf-Rüdiger Scheible, Barbara Fry, Andrej Kochevenko, Dana Schindelasch, Laurent Zimmerli, Shauna Somerville, Rosemary Loria, Chris R Somerville

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Article in The Plant cell, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
10.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Wolf-Rüdiger ScheibleMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Golm, Germany. scheible@mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Barbara Fry
Andrej Kochevenko
Dana Schindelasch
Laurent Zimmerli
Shauna Somerville
Rosemary Loria
Chris R Somerville
Carnegie Institution for Science · USMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology · DECornell University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thaxtomin A is a phytotoxin produced by Streptomyces scabies and other Streptomyces species, the causative agents of common scab disease in potato and other taproot crops. At nanomolar concentrations, thaxtomin causes dramatic cell swelling, reduced seedling growth, and inhibition of cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis. We identified a mutant of Arabidopsis, designated txr1, that exhibits increased resistance to thaxtomin as a result of a decrease in the rate of toxin uptake. The TXR1 gene was identified by map-based cloning and found to encode a novel, small protein with no apparent motifs or organelle-targeting signals. The protein, which has homologs in all fully sequenced eukaryotic genomes, is expressed in all tissues and during all developmental stages analyzed. Microarray transcript profiling of some 14,300 genes revealed two stomatin-like genes that were expressed differentially in the txr1 mutant and the wild type. We propose that TXR1 is a regulator of a transport mechanism.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBase SequenceBiological Transport, ActiveCelluloseDNA, PlantDrug ResistanceGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenes, PlantIndolesMolecular Sequence DataMutationOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisArabidopsis ProteinsCelluloseDNA, PlantIndolesPiperazinesRecombinant Fusion Proteinsthaxtomine A

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PMID12897252
PMCPMC167169
OpenAlexW2062785923

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