Patent ID: 6207880
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: A23B,A23L,C07K,C08B,C12N,C12P

Abstract:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a protein that is present in plant cells in starch granule-bound form as well as in soluble form and that is involved in the phosphorylation of starch when expressed in plants and/or that increases the phosphorylation of glycogen when expressed in E. coli, selected from the group consisting of:(a) a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2;(b) a nucleic acid molecule comprising the coding region of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1;(c) a nucleic acid molecule that hybridizes to the nucleic acid molecule of (a) or (b) under stringent conditions;(d) a nucleic acid molecule the nucleotide sequence of which is degenerate as a result of the genetic code to a nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid molecule of (a), (b) or (c); and(e) a fragment or allelic variant of the nucleic acid molecule of (a), (b), (c) or (d), wherein said fragment is of sufficient length to encode a protein that is present in plant cells in starch granule-bound form as well as in soluble form and that is involved in the phosphorylation of starch when expressed in plants and/or that increases the phosphorylation of glycogen when expressed in E. coli.