SPS2 solanesyl diphosphate synthase 2 [Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: SPS2
Official Full Name: solanesyl diphosphate synthase 2
Primary source: TAIR:AT1G17050
Locus tag: AT1G17050
See related: Araport:AT1G17050
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: REVIEWED
Organism: Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype: Columbia)
Lineage: Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Camelineae; Arabidopsis
Also known as: AtSPS2; F20D23.25; F20D23_25; solanesyl diphosphate synthase 2
Summary: Encodes one of the two paralogous solanesyl diphosphate synthases - SPS1 (At1g78510) and SPS2 (At1g17050) - that assemble the side-chain of plastoquinone-9 in plastids.
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Chromosome 1 - NC_003070.9 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

NM_101565.6

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables all-trans-nonaprenyl-diphosphate synthase (geranylgeranyl-diphosphate specific) activity	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
acts_upstream_of_or_within plastoquinone biosynthetic process	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
NOT involved_in ubiquinone biosynthetic process	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in chloroplast	HDA more info	PubMed
located_in chloroplast	ISM Inferred from Sequence Model more info
located_in chloroplast stroma	HDA more info	PubMed
located_in plastid	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed

NP_173148.2

solanesyl diphosphate synthase 2 (SPS2); FUNCTIONS IN: trans-octaprenyltranstransferase activity; INVOLVED IN: ubiquinone biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast, plastid; EXPRESSED IN: 22 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Solanesyl diphosphate synthase (InterPro:IPR014120), Polyprenyl synthetase-related (InterPro:IPR017446), Terpenoid synthase (InterPro:IPR008949), Polyprenyl synthetase (InterPro:IPR000092); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: solanesyl diphosphate synthase 1 (TAIR:AT1G78510.1); Has 16766 Blast hits to 16738 proteins in 2950 species: Archae - 341; Bacteria - 9538; Metazoa - 427; Fungi - 613; Plants - 416; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 5431 (source: NCBI BLink).