Application | Comment | Organism |
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biofuel production | downregulation of (hydroxy)cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) genes is another promising strategy to increase cell wall digestibility for biofuel production | Arabidopsis thaliana |
Protein Variants | Comment | Organism |
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additional information | construction of disruption mutants of genes CADC and CADD of Arabidopsis thaliana resulting in the atypical incorporation of hydroxycinnamaldehydes into lignin. The cadc/cadd-deficient and ferulic acid hydroxylase1 (fah1) cadc/cadd-deficient plants are similar in growth to wild-type plants even though their lignin compositions are drastically altered. In contrast, disruption of CAD in the F5H-overexpressing background results in dwarfism. The dwarfed phenotype observed in these plants does not appear to be related to collapsed xylem, a hallmark of many other lignin-deficient dwarf mutants. Mutant cadc/cadd-deficient and fah1 cadc/cadd-deficient, and cadd-deficient-F5H-overexpressing plants have increased enzyme-catalyzed cell wall digestibility. Phenotypes, overview | Arabidopsis thaliana |
Localization | Comment | Organism | GeneOntology No. | Textmining |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Arabidopsis thaliana | P48523 | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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AtCAD4 | UniProt | Arabidopsis thaliana |
cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 4 | UniProt | Arabidopsis thaliana |
cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase C | UniProt | Arabidopsis thaliana |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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malfunction | disruption of the genes encoding both cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenases (CADs), including CADC and CADD, in Arabidopsis thaliana results in the atypical incorporation of hydroxycinnamaldehydes into lignin. The cadc/cadd-deficient and ferulic acid hydroxylase1 (fah1) cadc/cadd-deficient plants are similar in growth to wild-type plants even though their lignin compositions are drastically altered. In contrast, disruption of CAD in the F5H-overexpressing background results in dwarfism. The dwarfed phenotype observed in these plants does not appear to be related to collapsed xylem, a hallmark of many other lignin-deficient dwarf mutants. Mutant cadc/cadd-deficient and fah1 cadc/cadd-deficient, and cadd-deficient-F5H-overexpressing plants have increased enzyme-catalyzed cell wall digestibility | Arabidopsis thaliana |
physiological function | hydroxycinnamaldehyde content is a more important determinant of digestibility than lignin content | Arabidopsis thaliana |