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Arabidopsis GHL1 is essential for plant viability, with homozygous loss lethal and reciprocal crosses showing severe transmission defects, especially via the male gamete.
- Why it matters: The field lacks clarity on whether GUP1/HHAT proteins have distinct functions or are bifunctional, and whether plant HHAT-like proteins act on GPI anchors or peptides.
- What they did: The authors analyzed Arabidopsis GHL1 localization to the Golgi and performed genetic and reciprocal cross tests; they also reconstituted HHAT peptide acyl transferase activity in plants using generic Hedgehog-like peptides.
- The result: GHL1 likely functions as a GPI-anchor remodelase rather than a peptide acyl transferase, and peptide acyltransferase activity was not readily introduced by mutating residues to mimic the HHAT active site.
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