Description : (at4g26850 : 457.0) Encodes a novel protein involved in ascorbate biosynthesis, which was shown to catalyze the transfer of GMP from GDP-galactose to a variety of hexose-1-phosphate acceptors. Recessive mutation has a reduced amount of vitamin C, lower level of non-photochemical quenching, and reduced rate of conversion of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin in high light.; vitamin c defective 2 (VTC2); FUNCTIONS IN: in 8 functions; INVOLVED IN: response to jasmonic acid stimulus, L-ascorbic acid biosynthetic process, defense response to bacterium, response to heat, defense response by callose deposition in cell wall; LOCATED IN: cellular_component unknown; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 15 growth stages; BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: galactose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase (GDP)s;GDP-D-glucose phosphorylases;quercetin 4'-O-glucosyltransferases (TAIR:AT5G55120.1); Has 30201 Blast hits to 17322 proteins in 780 species: Archae - 12; Bacteria - 1396; Metazoa - 17338; Fungi - 3422; Plants - 5037; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2996 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 914.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 7 h after light (SPM: 0.41, entropy: 2.75, tau: 0.35)