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Summary: Mol. Cells, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 210-218
Characterization and Transcriptional Expression of the
-Expansin Gene Family in Rice
Jun-Hye Shin1,2
, Dong-Hoon Jeong1
, Min Chul Park2
, and Gynheung An1,
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1
National Research Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics, Pohang University of Science and Technology Biotech Center,
Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea;
2
Department of Life Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon 420-743, Korea.
(Received April 1, 2005; Accepted May 31, 2005)
The rice genome contains at least 28 EXPA (-expansin)
genes. We have obtained near full-length cDNAs from
the previously uncharacterized genes. Analysis of these
newly identified clones together with the 12 identified
earlier showed that the EXPA genes contain up to two
introns and encode proteins of 240 to 291 amino acid
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