RRC ID 57065
著者 Yano K, Aoki S, Liu M, Umehara Y, Suganuma N, Iwasaki W, Sato S, Soyano T, Kouchi H, Kawaguchi M.
タイトル Function and evolution of a Lotus japonicus AP2/ERF family transcription factor that is required for development of infection threads.
ジャーナル DNA Res
Abstract Legume-rhizobium symbiosis is achieved by two major events evolutionarily acquired: root hair infection and organogenesis. Infection thread (IT) development is a distinct element for rhizobial infection. Through ITs, rhizobia are efficiently transported from infection foci on root hairs to dividing meristematic cortical cells. To unveil this process, we performed genetic screening using Lotus japonicus MG-20 and isolated symbiotic mutant lines affecting nodulation, root hair morphology, and IT development. Map-based cloning identified an AP2/ERF transcription factor gene orthologous to Medicago truncatula ERN1. LjERN1 was activated in response to rhizobial infection and depended on CYCLOPS and NSP2. Legumes conserve an ERN1 homolog, ERN2, that functions redundantly with ERN1 in M. truncatula. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the lineages of ERN1 and ERN2 genes originated from a gene duplication event in the common ancestor of legume plants. However, genomic analysis suggested the lack of ERN2 gene in the L. japonicus genome, consistent with Ljern1 mutants exhibited a root hair phenotype that is observed in ern1/ern2 double mutants in M. truncatula. Molecular evolutionary analysis suggested that the nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratios of legume ERN1 genes was almost identical to that of non-legume plants, whereas the ERN2 genes experienced a relaxed selective constraint.
巻・号 24(2)
ページ 193-203
公開日 2017-4-1
DOI 10.1093/dnares/dsw052
PII dsw052
PMID 28028038
PMC PMC5397602
MeSH Evolution, Molecular* Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Lotus / genetics Lotus / metabolism* Phylogeny Plant Proteins / genetics* Plant Proteins / metabolism Plant Proteins / physiology Plant Roots / metabolism Plant Roots / physiology Transcription Factors / genetics* Transcription Factors / metabolism Transcription Factors / physiology
IF 4.009
引用数 18
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