posted by Allison E McDonald <allison at utsc.utoronto.ca> at 2004-04-20
GeneName
PTOX
ProductName
plastoquinol terminal oxidase
Function
PTOX is believed to oxidize plastoquinol to plastoquinone and to reduce oxygen to water. PTOX may represent the terminal oxidase in the process of chlororespiration.
Comment
The assignment of this gene as PTOX is based on multiple sequence alignments and molecular phylogenies.