Functional characterization of a tomato COBRA-likegene functioning in fruit development and ripening

BMC Plant Biology

Table 1 Tomato COBRA gene family in The SOL Genomics Network (SGN) and their sequence characteristics

Family name	Gene code (SGN)	Exons^a	Amino Acids^b	CCVS domain	N-terminal signal peptide	Potential ω- site
SlCOBL4	Solyc01g065530.2.1	2	648	yes	yes	S(624)
SlCOBL5	Solyc01g103860.2.1	5	423	yes	no	no
SlCOBL6	Solyc01g111050.2.1	5	469	yes	no	no
SlCOBRA-like	Solyc02g065770.2.1	6	444	yes	yes	N (417)
SlCOBL7	Solyc02g080240.1.1	2	385	no	yes	no
SlCOBL8	Solyc02g080250.1.1	3	342	yes	no	no
SlCOBL1	Solyc02g089120.2.1	6	447	yes	yes	N(420)
SlCOBL9	Solyc02g089130.2.1	6	434	yes	yes	N(410)
SlCOBL10	Solyc03g070440.2.1	7	431	yes	yes	no
SlCOBL11	Solyc03g070460.1.1	3	116	no	no	no
SlCOBL12	Solyc03g114880.1.1	7	319	no	no	no
SlCOBL2	Solyc03g114890.2.1	6	401	yes	yes	no
SlCOBL13	Solyc03g114900.2.1	6	447	yes	yes	no
SlCOBL14	Solyc03g114910.2.1	6	458	yes	yes	N(430)
SlCOBL3	Solyc07g064200.2.1	3	615	yes	yes	no
SlCOBL15	Solyc09g075540.1.1	2	652	yes	yes	no
SlCOBL16	Solyc10g006450.2.1	2	671	yes	yes	no

^a The number of Exons. ^bAmino acid residue number in each predicted SlCOBL protein. Predictions of N-terminal signal peptide and potential C-terminal GPI-Modification sites (ω- sites) were performed with SignalP Version 3.0 (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/)[49] and big-PI (http://mendel.imp.ac.at/gpi/gpi_server.html) [50], respectively.

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