Cloning, characterisation and comparative analysis of a starch synthase IV gene in wheat: functional and evolutionary implications

Table 1 Amino acid residues that directly bind the ADPglucose substrate in AgtGS and their corresponding invariant residues in plant SS proteins

Amino acids that are part of the catalytic site in AgtGS were identified in previous studies [18, 19, 43, 44] and the equivalent residues in plant SSs were identified after alignment of AgtGS using ClustalW [34]. Only AgtGS amino acids that were conserved across all of the SS isoforms are shown. Data was extracted from the alignment shown in Figure 8.

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