Encodes cytokinin synthase involved in cytokinin biosynthesis. IPT3 subcellular localization is modulated by farnesylation- when farnesylated it is localized to the nucleus, otherwise to the chloroplast.
Computational Description
isopentenyltransferase 3 (IPT3); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: tRNA isopentenyltransferase (InterPro:IPR002627); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: isopentenyltransferase 5 (TAIR:AT5G19040.1); Has 30201 Blast hits to 17322 proteins in 780 species: Archae - 12; Bacteria - 1396; Metazoa - 17338; Fungi - 3422; Plants - 5037; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2996 (source: NCBI BLink).