Table 2 Classification of putative orthologous genes among maize and Arabidopsis for cell wall-related functions. Putative orthology is based on common elongation/primary wall or secondary wall expression profiles of genes with highest sequence similarity (Additional File 1: Dataset 1)1
Cell Wall function | Number of Genes (Number expressed)2 | Putative | Putative |
|---|---|---|---|
Primary wall | Secondary Wall | ||
Orthologs | Orthologs | ||
Sucrose Synthase | 8(8) | 4 | 0 |
Nucleotide-sugar interconversion | 46(39) | 8 | 0 |
Nucleotide-sugar transport (NST) | 65(61) | 27 | 0 |
Cellulose synthase (CesA) | 20(19) | 12 | 5 |
Callose synthase | 12(12) | 6 | 0 |
Cellulose synthase-like (Csl) | 35(30) | 6 | 0 |
Glycosyl Transferase (GT) | 265(183) | 70 | 9 |
Acetyltransferase (TBL/BAHD) | 77(61) | 1 | 2 |
ER-Golgi resident protein | 41(36) | 17 | 0 |
AGP/Glycoprotein/RLK | 52(38) | 9 | 1 |
GPI-anchored protein | 22(15) | 1 | 2 |
Expansin/XTH/Yieldin | 97(45) | 18 | 1 |
Methylesterase/acetylesterase | 45(26) | 13 | 0 |
Polysaccharide Hydrolase/lyase | 155(105) | 49 | 3 |
Protease | 51(28) | 4 | 2 |
Monolignol Synthesis | 100(74) | 16 | 9 |
Peroxidase | 124(57) | 13 | 1 |
Laccase | 24(17) | 1 | 4 |
Total | 1239(854) | 275 | 39 |