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LQ's Science Paper
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sucrose efflux mediated by sweet proteins is a key step for? | phloem transport |
| Using sucrose sensors, we ID-ed ... | a subfamily of SWEET sucrose efflux transporters, SWEET 11 and 12 |
| SWEET 11 and SWEET12 are localized to.. they are in... | Plasma membrane of phloem, vascular tissue, major and minor veins |
| Mutants of SWEET 11 and 12 are defective in... | phloem loading |
| Describe the 2 step mechanism of SWEET mediated export ... | From parenchyma cells feeding to H+ coupled import into SE/CC |
| An effective mechanism to limit the ability of photosynthetic carbon in leaf apoplasm to prevent pathogen infections could be... | to restrict intercellular transport to interface of adjacent phloem cells |
| SWEET can transport sucrose across the plasmodesmata, what are they in Arabidopsis and rice? | SWEET 10- 15 in Arabidopsis, SWEET 11 and 14 in Rice |
| Sucrose is exported by ___ and feeds into ____ | SWEET, and SUC2 |
| Why were human cell lines suitable to represent the functional expression system for heterologous sucrose transporters? What did they find? | They lack endogenous sucrose transport activity, so adding SWEET 10 + 15 allowed the human cells to accumulate sucrose |
| There is a preference for sucrose over ____ but no transport of ____ | glucose, maltose |
| If you inject sucrose into frog eggs, ... | there is a time dependent efflux of sucrose |
| How similar are SWEET 11 and 12? What happens when you mutate them? DKO? | They are 88% similar in amino acids. Lines with TDNA insertions don't show significant phenotype, but at higher light, double mutant lines were smaller relative to WT controls |
| Mature leaves of the double mutant had | high levels of sucrose at the end of the light photo period and end of the dark photoperiod- impaired ability to export sucrose from leaves |
| when phloem loading was blocked or plants were treated with sucrose, leaves had higher levels of ____ | hexose |
| reduced efflux of sugars from leaves is expected to lead to reduced | translocation of photo assimilates to roots |
| Mutants germinated in light - sugar had _____, adding sugar ___ | reduced root length, rescued |