Valeria Genovesi
Personal Details |
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| Name | : Valeria Genovesi |
| Nationality | : Italian |
| Former position in group | : visiting PhD student in 2006 |
Background
Visiting PhD student (January-April 2006) from the group headed by Dr. Joan Rigau in the Plant Molecular Genetics Department of the Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona-Spain.
In our laboratory of Barcelona we are interested in the study of genes of cell wall in maize. Among others, a maize XTH (Xyloglucan endoTransglucosylase/Hydrolase) cDNA, ZmXTH1, was isolated from a cDNA expression library.
In order to gain more knowledge on this protein, the predicted ZmXTH1 protein was overexpressed in a prokaryotic system (the bacteria Escherichia coli), an eukaryotic system (the yeast Pichia pastoris) and in the plant model system Arabidopsis thaliana.
The part of work to perform in the “Edinburgh Cell Wall Group” will be the enzymatic characterisation of this recombinant protein, in order to assess if it has XET activity.