OsSPS2

• Symbol: OsSPS2
• MSU: LOC_Os05g50550
• RAPdb: Os05g0582300

• LOC_Os05g50550.1: 0.0282

• LOC_Os05g50550.1: 0

• 80.33

• Two solanesyl diphosphate synthases with different subcellular localizations and their respective physiological roles in Oryza sativa, 2010, J Exp Bot.

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• Green fluorescent protein fusion analyses showed that OsSPS1 localized to mitochondria, while OsSPS2 localized to plastids
• This suggests that OsSPS1 is involved in the supply of solanesyl diphosphate for ubiquinone-9 biosynthesis in mitochondria, whereas OsSPS2 is involved in providing solanesyl diphosphate for plastoquinone-9 formation
• However, an important biological difference was observed between the two genes: OsSPS1 complemented the yeast coq1 disruptant, which does not form UQ, whereas OsSPS2 only very weakly complemented the growth defect of the coq1 mutant
• OsSPS1 was highly expressed in root tissue whereas OsSPS2 was found to be high in both leaves and roots

• OsFBN5, OsSPS2, Conserved Function of Fibrillin5 in the Plastoquinone-9 Biosynthetic Pathway in Arabidopsis and Rice., Protein interaction experiments in yeast and mesophyll cells confirmed that OsFBN5 interacts with the rice solanesyl diphosphate synthase OsSPS2 and also with Arabidopsis AtSPS1 and AtSPS2