Encodes a methyl IAA esterase. Methyl IAA is believed to be an inactive form of auxin that needs to be demethylated to exert a biological effect. MES17 does not act on methyl JA, MeSA, MeGA4, or MEGA9 in vitro. This gene is expressed in several tissues of seedlings and adult plants, with a higher relative level of expression in the seedling shoot apex and the adult stem.
Computational Description
methyl esterase 17 (MES17); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Alpha/beta hydrolase fold-1 (InterPro:IPR000073); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: methyl esterase 18 (TAIR:AT5G58310.1); Has 1383 Blast hits to 1383 proteins in 290 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 591; Metazoa - 1; Fungi - 15; Plants - 599; Viruses - 2; Other Eukaryotes - 175 (source: NCBI BLink).