RRC ID 30994
著者 Suzuki W, Konishi M, Yanagisawa S.
タイトル The evolutionary events necessary for the emergence of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes may involve a loss of nitrate responsiveness of the NIN transcription factor.
ジャーナル Plant Signal Behav
Abstract NODULE INCEPTION (NIN) is a key regulator of the symbiotic nitrogen fixation pathway in legumes including Lotus japonicus. NIN-like proteins (NLPs), which are presumably present in all land plants, were recently identified as key transcription factors in nitrate signaling and responses in Arabidopsis thaliana, a non-leguminous plant. Here we show that both NIN and NLP1 of L. japonicus (LjNLP1) can bind to the nitrate-responsive cis-element (NRE) and promote transcription from an NRE-containing promoter as did the NLPs of A. thaliana (AtNLPs). However, differing from LjNLP1 and the AtNLPs that are activated by nitrate signaling through their N-terminal regions, the N-terminal region of NIN did not respond to nitrate. Thus, in the course of the evolution of NIN into a transcription factor that functions in nodulation in legumes, some mutations might arise that converted it to a nitrate-insensitive transcription factor. Because nodule formation is induced under nitrogen-deficient conditions, we speculate that the loss of the nitrate-responsiveness of NIN may be one of the evolutionary events necessary for the emergence of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes.
巻・号 8(10)
公開日 2013-10-1
DOI 10.4161/psb.25975
PII 25975
PMID 24270631
PMC PMC4091089
MeSH Arabidopsis / metabolism* Arabidopsis Proteins / metabolism* Fabaceae / metabolism* Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Nitrogen Fixation / physiology Symbiosis / physiology
IF 1.671
引用数 23
リソース情報
ミヤコグサ・ダイズ Lotus japonicus