Encodes oleosin4 (Plant Cell, 2006, 18:1961), a protein found in oil bodies, involved in seed lipid accumulation. Functions in freezing tolerance of seeds. Note: also referred to as OLE3 in Plant Journal 2008, 55:798.
Computational Description
oleosin 4 (OLEO4); FUNCTIONS IN: molecular_function unknown; INVOLVED IN: response to freezing, lipid storage, seed germination, seed oilbody biogenesis; LOCATED IN: monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body, integral to membrane, membrane; EXPRESSED IN: hypocotyl, flower, stamen; EXPRESSED DURING: 4 anthesis, petal differentiation and expansion stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Oleosin (InterPro:IPR000136); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: oleosin 2 (TAIR:AT5G40420.1); Has 520 Blast hits to 520 proteins in 52 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 0; Fungi - 0; Plants - 520; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 0 (source: NCBI BLink).