Encodes PAL4, a putative a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase. Arabidopsis has four PALs: AT2G37040 (PAL1), AT3G53260 (PAL2), AT5G04230 (PAL3) and AT3G10340 (PAL4).
Computational Description
phenylalanine ammonia-lyase 4 (PAL4); FUNCTIONS IN: ammonia-lyase activity, catalytic activity; INVOLVED IN: L-phenylalanine catabolic process, biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: cytoplasm; EXPRESSED IN: 15 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 4 anthesis, C globular stage, petal differentiation and expansion stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Phenylalanine/histidine ammonia-lyase (InterPro:IPR001106), Phenylalanine/histidine ammonia-lyases, active site (InterPro:IPR022313), L-Aspartase-like (InterPro:IPR008948), Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (InterPro:IPR005922); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: PHE ammonia lyase 1 (TAIR:AT2G37040.1); Has 4898 Blast hits to 4876 proteins in 1415 species: Archae - 40; Bacteria - 2975; Metazoa - 80; Fungi - 127; Plants - 1177; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 499 (source: NCBI BLink).
