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Cloning and characterization of a tomato GTPase-like gene related to yeast and Arabidopsis genes involved in vesicular transport

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The reduced translation product of a tomato cDNA derived from a gene expressed in a number of tomato tissues of different developmental stages contained sequence motifs characteristic of the GTPase superfamily of proteins. The sequence was closely related to the Sar1 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a protein essential for the formation of protein transport vesicles at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) (A. Nakano and M. Muramatsu, Cell Biol 109 (1989): 2677–2691). From analysis of the GTPase superfamily gene sequences, including the tomato SAR-like gene, it is proposed that the SAR genes comprise a distinct GTPase subfamily, presumably with a common, essential function in vesicular transport.

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Davies, C. Cloning and characterization of a tomato GTPase-like gene related to yeast and Arabidopsis genes involved in vesicular transport. Plant Mol Biol 24, 525–531 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00024120

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