Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, Bangi 43600, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
  • 2 Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, Bangi 43600, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Data Brief, 2017 Dec;15:320-323.
PMID: 29214193 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.09.050

Abstract

Expansin increases cell wall extensibility to allow cell wall loosening and cell expansion even in the absence of hydrolytic activity. Previous studies showed that excessive overexpression of expansin gene resulted in defective growth (Goh et al., 2014; Rochange et al., 2001) [1,2] and altered cell wall chemical composition (Zenoni et al., 2011) [3]. However, the molecular mechanism on how the overexpression of non-enzymatic cell wall protein expansin can result in widespread effects on plant cell wall and organ growth remains unclear. We acquired transcriptomic data on previously reported transgenic Arabidopsis line (Goh et al., 2014) [1] to investigate the effects of overexpressing a heterologus cucumber expansin gene (CsEXPA1) on the global gene expression pattern during early and late phases of etiolated hypocotyl growth.

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