Encodes a cold-inducible cationic peroxidase that is involved in the stress response. In response to low temperature, RCI3 transcripts accumulate in the aerial part and in roots of etiolated seedlings but only in roots of light-grown seedlings.
Computational Description
RARE COLD INDUCIBLE GENE 3 (RCI3); FUNCTIONS IN: peroxidase activity; INVOLVED IN: response to desiccation, response to cold, hyperosmotic salinity response; LOCATED IN: endoplasmic reticulum; EXPRESSED IN: 12 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 4 anthesis, petal differentiation and expansion stage, E expanded cotyledon stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Haem peroxidase (InterPro:IPR010255), Plant peroxidase (InterPro:IPR000823), Peroxidases heam-ligand binding site (InterPro:IPR019793), Peroxidase, active site (InterPro:IPR019794), Haem peroxidase, plant/fungal/bacterial (InterPro:IPR002016); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Peroxidase superfamily protein (TAIR:AT3G21770.1); Has 4433 Blast hits to 4402 proteins in 259 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 4; Metazoa - 3; Fungi - 76; Plants - 4304; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 46 (source: NCBI BLink).
