Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 63-72Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-1-0063
Keywords
alternative splicing; confocal laser-scanning microscopy; mRFP
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- International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genome Research
- CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Germany
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The nodule-specific MtNOD25 gene of the model legume Medicago truncatula encodes a modular nodulin composed of different repetitive modules flanked by distinct N- and C-termini. Although similarities are low with respect to all repetitive modules, both the N-terminal signal peptide (SP) and the C-terminus are highly conserved in modular nodulins from different legumes. On the cellular level, MtNOD25 is only transcribed in the infected cells of root nodules, and this activation is mediated by a 299-bp minimal promoter containing an organ-specific element. By expressing mGFP6 translational fusions in transgenic nodules, we show that MtNOD25 proteins are exclusively translocated to the symbiosomes of infected cells. This specific targeting only requires an N-terminal MtNOD25 SP that is highly conserved across a family of legume-specific symbiosome proteins. Our finding sheds light on one possible mechanism for the delivery of host proteins to the symbiosomes of infected root nodule cells and, in addition, defines a short molecular address label of only 24 amino acids whose N-terminal presence is sufficient to translocate proteins across the peribacteroid membrane.
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