ID   MEG4_MAIZE              Reviewed;          76 AA.
AC   Q6JB12;
DT   03-SEP-2014, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot.
DT   05-JUL-2004, sequence version 1.
DT   03-AUG-2022, entry version 43.
DE   RecName: Full=Protein MATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 4;
DE   Flags: Precursor;
GN   Name=MEG4; ORFNames=GRMZM2G123153 {ECO:0000305};
OS   Zea mays (Maize).
OC   Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta;
OC   Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Liliopsida; Poales; Poaceae; PACMAD clade;
OC   Panicoideae; Andropogonodae; Andropogoneae; Tripsacinae; Zea.
OX   NCBI_TaxID=4577;
RN   [1]
RP   NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA], TISSUE SPECIFICITY, DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE, GENE
RP   FAMILY, AND NOMENCLATURE.
RX   PubMed=15105441; DOI=10.1105/tpc.019778;
RA   Gutierrez-Marcos J.F., Costa L.M., Biderre-Petit C., Khbaya B.,
RA   O'Sullivan D.M., Wormald M., Perez P., Dickinson H.G.;
RT   "maternally expressed gene1 is a novel maize endosperm transfer cell-
RT   specific gene with a maternal parent-of-origin pattern of expression.";
RL   Plant Cell 16:1288-1301(2004).
RN   [2]
RP   NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
RC   STRAIN=cv. B73;
RX   PubMed=19965430; DOI=10.1126/science.1178534;
RA   Schnable P.S., Ware D., Fulton R.S., Stein J.C., Wei F., Pasternak S.,
RA   Liang C., Zhang J., Fulton L., Graves T.A., Minx P., Reily A.D.,
RA   Courtney L., Kruchowski S.S., Tomlinson C., Strong C., Delehaunty K.,
RA   Fronick C., Courtney B., Rock S.M., Belter E., Du F., Kim K., Abbott R.M.,
RA   Cotton M., Levy A., Marchetto P., Ochoa K., Jackson S.M., Gillam B.,
RA   Chen W., Yan L., Higginbotham J., Cardenas M., Waligorski J., Applebaum E.,
RA   Phelps L., Falcone J., Kanchi K., Thane T., Scimone A., Thane N., Henke J.,
RA   Wang T., Ruppert J., Shah N., Rotter K., Hodges J., Ingenthron E.,
RA   Cordes M., Kohlberg S., Sgro J., Delgado B., Mead K., Chinwalla A.,
RA   Leonard S., Crouse K., Collura K., Kudrna D., Currie J., He R.,
RA   Angelova A., Rajasekar S., Mueller T., Lomeli R., Scara G., Ko A.,
RA   Delaney K., Wissotski M., Lopez G., Campos D., Braidotti M., Ashley E.,
RA   Golser W., Kim H., Lee S., Lin J., Dujmic Z., Kim W., Talag J., Zuccolo A.,
RA   Fan C., Sebastian A., Kramer M., Spiegel L., Nascimento L., Zutavern T.,
RA   Miller B., Ambroise C., Muller S., Spooner W., Narechania A., Ren L.,
RA   Wei S., Kumari S., Faga B., Levy M.J., McMahan L., Van Buren P.,
RA   Vaughn M.W., Ying K., Yeh C.-T., Emrich S.J., Jia Y., Kalyanaraman A.,
RA   Hsia A.-P., Barbazuk W.B., Baucom R.S., Brutnell T.P., Carpita N.C.,
RA   Chaparro C., Chia J.-M., Deragon J.-M., Estill J.C., Fu Y., Jeddeloh J.A.,
RA   Han Y., Lee H., Li P., Lisch D.R., Liu S., Liu Z., Nagel D.H., McCann M.C.,
RA   SanMiguel P., Myers A.M., Nettleton D., Nguyen J., Penning B.W.,
RA   Ponnala L., Schneider K.L., Schwartz D.C., Sharma A., Soderlund C.,
RA   Springer N.M., Sun Q., Wang H., Waterman M., Westerman R., Wolfgruber T.K.,
RA   Yang L., Yu Y., Zhang L., Zhou S., Zhu Q., Bennetzen J.L., Dawe R.K.,
RA   Jiang J., Jiang N., Presting G.G., Wessler S.R., Aluru S.,
RA   Martienssen R.A., Clifton S.W., McCombie W.R., Wing R.A., Wilson R.K.;
RT   "The B73 maize genome: complexity, diversity, and dynamics.";
RL   Science 326:1112-1115(2009).
CC   -!- TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed exclusively in endosperm.
CC       {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15105441}.
CC   -!- DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE: Expressed from 4 to 20 days after pollination.
CC       {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15105441}.
CC   -!- SIMILARITY: Belongs to the MEG family. {ECO:0000305}.
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DR   EMBL; AY536124; AAT09813.1; -; mRNA.
DR   EMBL; AC213370; -; NOT_ANNOTATED_CDS; Genomic_DNA.
DR   AlphaFoldDB; Q6JB12; -.
DR   SMR; Q6JB12; -.
DR   Proteomes; UP000007305; Unplaced.
DR   ExpressionAtlas; Q6JB12; baseline.
PE   2: Evidence at transcript level;
KW   Disulfide bond; Reference proteome; Signal.
FT   SIGNAL          1..27
FT                   /evidence="ECO:0000255"
FT   CHAIN           28..76
FT                   /note="Protein MATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 4"
FT                   /id="PRO_0000430076"
FT   DISULFID        53..75
FT                   /evidence="ECO:0000250"
SQ   SEQUENCE   76 AA;  8409 MW;  9C32EE0626E81C84 CRC64;
     MEYRKRVDAL VFFSLLLLGY FAAHAHGKAK EGIMQGNGAR CVVGFPPCKD NKCYCCIGGR
     THARYSTMAE CSHACF