Protein Information

Name NIT2
Synonyms NIT 2; NIT2

Compound Information

Name IAA
CAS

Reference List

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11525507 Vorwerk S, Biernacki S, Hillebrand H, Janzik I, Muller A, Weiler EW, Piotrowski M: Enzymatic characterization of the recombinant Arabidopsis thaliana nitrilase subfamily encoded by the NIT2/NIT1/NIT3-gene cluster. Planta. 2001 Mar;212(4):508-16.

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11089910 Dohmoto M, Tsunoda H, Isaji G, Chiba R, Yamaguchi K: Genes encoding nitrilase-like proteins from tobacco. DNA Res. 2000 Oct 31;7(5):283-9.


Arabidopsis thaliana genome has four nitrilase genes (NIT1, NIT2, NIT3 and NIT4).
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9368415 Normanly J, Grisafi P, Fink GR, Bartel B: Arabidopsis mutants resistant to the auxin effects of indole-3-acetonitrile are defective in the nitrilase encoded by the NIT1 gene. Plant Cell. 1997 Oct;9(10):1781-90.


These mutants were recessive and fell into a single complementation group that mapped to chromosome 3, within 0.5 centimorgans of a cluster of three nitrilase-encoding genes, NIT1, NIT2, and NIT3.
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11967096 Kutz A, Muller A, Hennig P, Kaiser WM, Piotrowski M, Weiler EW: A role for nitrilase 3 in the regulation of root morphology in sulphur-starving Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 2002 Apr;30(1):95-106.


Arabidopsis thaliana expresses four nitrilases, three of which (NIT1, NIT2 and NIT3) are able to convert indole-3-acetonitrile to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), the plant growth hormone, while the isozyme NIT4 is a beta-cyano-l-alanine hydratase/nitrilase.
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12430025 Pollmann S, Muller A, Piotrowski M, Weiler EW: Occurrence and formation of indole-3-acetamide in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta. 2002 Nov;216(1):155-61. Epub 2002 Nov 12.


NIT2 was earlier shown to be highly expressed in developing and in mature A. thaliana embryos, and NIT3 is the dominantly active gene in the hypocotyl and the cotyledons of young, germinating seedlings.
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