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Improving starch yield in cereals by over-expression of ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase: Expectations and unanticipated outcomes by Tuncel, Aytug, Okita, Thomas W.

“…•Plant growth and development is dependent on efficient source–sink relationships.•Manipulation of starch metabolism has the potential to increase plant…”
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RNA-Binding Proteins: The Key Modulator in Stress Granule Formation and Abiotic Stress Response by Yan, Yanyan, Gan, Jianghuang, Tao, Yilin, Okita, Thomas W., Tian, Li

“…To cope with abiotic environmental stress, plants rapidly change their gene expression transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally, the latter by…”
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Targeted Endoplasmic Reticulum Localization of Storage Protein mRNAs Requires the RNA-Binding Protein RBP-L by Tian, Li, Chou, Hong-Li, Zhang, Laining, Okita, Thomas W

“…The transport and targeting of glutelin and prolamine mRNAs to distinct subdomains of the cortical endoplasmic reticulum is a model for mRNA localization in…”
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Plastidic phosphoglucomutase and ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase mutants impair starch synthesis in rice pollen grains and cause male sterility by Lee, Sang-Kyu, Eom, Joon-Seob, Hwang, Seon-Kap, Shin, Dongjin, An, Gynheung, Okita, Thomas W., Jeon, Jong-Seong

“…To elucidate the starch synthesis pathway and the role of this reserve in rice pollen, we characterized mutations in the plastidic phosphoglucomutase, OspPGM,…”
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RNA-Binding Protein RBP-P Is Required for Glutelin and Prolamine mRNA Localization in Rice Endosperm Cells by Tian, Li, Chou, Hong-Li, Zhang, Laining, Hwang, Seon-Kap, Starkenburg, Shawn R., Doroshenk, Kelly A., Kumamaru, Toshihiro, Okita, Thomas W.

“…In developing rice (Oryza sativa) endosperm, mRNAs of the major storage proteins, glutelin and prolamine, are transported and anchored to distinct subdomains…”
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The plastid phosphorylase as a multiple-role player in plant metabolism by Hwang, Seon-Kap, Koper, Kaan, Okita, Thomas W.

“…•Starch phosphorylases have diverse roles and fates in different subcellular compartments.•Not all L80 peptides are potential targets of proteasomal…”
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mRNA-based protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum and chloroplasts in plant cells by Tian, Li, Okita, Thomas W

“…•Specific mRNAs are localized to distinct ER subdomains in rice endosperm.•mRNA localization involves actin-mediated transport of a large RNP complex.•mRNA…”
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Multifunctional RNA Binding Protein OsTudor-SN in Storage Protein mRNA Transport and Localization by Chou, Hong-Li, Tian, Li, Kumamaru, Toshihiro, Hamada, Shigeki, Okita, Thomas W.

“…The multifunctional RNA-binding protein Tudor-SN plays multiple roles in transcriptional and posttranscriptional processes due to its modular domain structure,…”
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RNA-seq analysis reveals transcriptome reprogramming and alternative splicing during early response to salt stress in tomato root by Gan, Jianghuang, Qiu, Yongqi, Tao, Yilin, Zhang, Laining, Okita, Thomas W, Yan, Yanyan, Tian, Li

“…Salt stress is one of the dominant abiotic stress conditions that cause severe damage to plant growth and, in turn, limiting crop productivity. It is therefore…”
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mRNA Localization to the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Plant Endosperm Cells by Zhang, Laining, Si, Qidong, Yang, Kejie, Zhang, Wenwei, Okita, Thomas W, Tian, Li

“…Subcellular mRNA localization is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism to spatially and temporally drive local translation and, in turn, protein targeting…”
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The Role of RNA-Binding Protein OsTudor-SN in Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Seed Storage Proteins and Endosperm Development by Chou, Hong-Li, Tian, Li, Fukuda, Masako, Kumamaru, Toshihiro, Okita, Thomas W

“…Abstract Tudor-SN is involved in a myriad of transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes due to its modular structure consisting of 4 tandem SN domains…”
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The rice endosperm ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase large subunit is essential for optimal catalysis and allosteric regulation of the heterotetrameric enzyme by Tuncel, Aytug, Kawaguchi, Joe, Ihara, Yasuharu, Matsusaka, Hiroaki, Nishi, Aiko, Nakamura, Tetsuhiro, Kuhara, Satoru, Hirakawa, Hideki, Nakamura, Yasunori, Cakir, Bilal, Nagamine, Ai, Okita, Thomas W, Hwang, Seon-Kap, Satoh, Hikaru

“…Although an alternative pathway has been suggested, the prevailing view is that starch synthesis in cereal endosperm is controlled by the activity of the…”
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The rice storage protein mRNAs as a model system for RNA localization in higher plants by Chou, Hong-Li, Tian, Li, Washida, Haruhiko, Fukuda, Masako, Kumamaru, Toshihiro, Okita, Thomas W.

“…•The rice storage protein mRNAs are transported and localized to distinct subdomains of the cortical endoplasmic reticulum.•RNAs are transported to the…”
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The plastidial starch phosphorylase from rice endosperm: catalytic properties at low temperature by Hwang, Seon-Kap, Singh, Salvinder, Cakir, Bilal, Satoh, Hikaru, Okita, Thomas W.

“…Starch phosphorylase (Pho) is an essential enzyme in starch synthesis in developing rice endosperm as the enzyme plays a critical role in both the early and…”
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Re‐programming of gene expression in the CS8 rice line over‐expressing ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase induces a suppressor of starch biosynthesis by Cakir, Bilal, Tian, Li, Crofts, Naoko, Chou, Hong‐Li, Koper, Kaan, Ng, Chun‐Yeung, Tuncel, Aytug, Gargouri, Mahmoud, Hwang, Seon‐Kap, Fujita, Naoko, Okita, Thomas W.

“…Summary The CS8 transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) lines expressing an up‐regulated glgC gene produced higher levels of ADPglucose (ADPglc), the substrate for…”
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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Effects of Exogenous Gibberellin on the Germination of Solanum torvum Seeds by Wu, Saimei, Si, Qidong, Yang, Kejie, Zhang, Wenwei, Zhang, Laining, Okita, Thomas W, Yan, Yanyan, Tian, Li

“…Solanum torvum, a wild relative of eggplant in the Solanaceae family, is widely used as a rootstock to prevent various soil-borne diseases. Despite this valued…”
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A Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor for Rab5 Proteins Is Essential for Intracellular Transport of the Proglutelin from the Golgi Apparatus to the Protein Storage Vacuole in Rice Endosperm by Fukuda, Masako, Wen, Liuying, Satoh-Cruz, Mio, Kawagoe, Yasushi, Nagamura, Yoshiaki, Okita, Thomas W., Washida, Haruhiko, Sugino, Aya, Ishino, Sonoko, Ishino, Yoshizumi, Ogawa, Masahiro, Sunada, Mariko, Ueda, Takashi, Kumamaru, Toshihiro

“…Rice (Oryza sativa) glutelins are synthesized on the endoplasmic reticulum as a precursor, which are then transported via the Golgi to protein storage vacuoles…”
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Selective sets of mRNAs localize to extracellular paramural bodies in a rice glup6 mutant by Yang, Yongil, Chou, Hong-Li, Crofts, Andrew J, Zhang, Laining, Tian, Li, Washida, Haruhiko, Fukuda, Masako, Kumamaru, Toshihiro, Oviedo, Oliver J, Starkenburg, Shawn R, Okita, Thomas W

“…Rice mutant lines containing defective membrane trafficking Rab5 and Rab5-GEF mislocalize glutelin RNAs intracellularly, and export specific sets of RNAs that…”
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role of the large subunit in redox regulation of the rice endosperm ADP‐glucose pyrophosphorylase by Tuncel, Aytug, Cakir, Bilal, Hwang, Seon‐Kap, Okita, Thomas W

“…The starch regulatory enzyme ADP‐glucose pyrophosphorylase is activated by 3‐phosphoglyceric acid (3‐PGA) and inhibited by inorganic phosphate (Pᵢ). The…”
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A Role for the Cysteine-Rich 10 kDa Prolamin in Protein Body I Formation in Rice by Nagamine, Ai, Matsusaka, Hiroaki, Ushijima, Tomokazu, Kawagoe, Yasushi, Ogawa, Masahiro, Okita, Thomas W., Kumamaru, Toshihiro

“…The rice prolamins consist of cysteine-rich 10 kDa (CysR10), 14 kDa (CysR14) and 16 kDa (CysR16) molecular species and a cysteine-poor 13 kDa (CysP13)…”
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