Description : (at4g20050 : 487.0) Encodes a polygalacturonase that plays a direct role in degrading the pollen mother cell wall during microspore development.; QUARTET 3 (QRT3); FUNCTIONS IN: polygalacturonase activity; INVOLVED IN: microsporogenesis, pollen exine formation; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system; EXPRESSED IN: 16 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 7 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Pectin lyase fold/virulence factor (InterPro:IPR011050), Parallel beta-helix repeat (InterPro:IPR006626); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Pectin lyase-like superfamily protein (TAIR:AT4G20040.1); Has 103 Blast hits to 103 proteins in 26 species: Archae - 2; Bacteria - 18; Metazoa - 0; Fungi - 3; Plants - 67; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 13 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 974.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 6 h after dark (SPM: 0.58, entropy: 2.25, tau: 0.41)