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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 151, Issue 3, Pages 1239-1249Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.143933
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [OTKAT046819, D048451, K76843]
- National Research and Development Program [NKFP 4/031/2004]
- Economic Competitiveness Operative Programs [GVOP-3.1.1-2004-05-0101/3.0]
- Biotechnology and Biological Research Council [BB/D521749/1]
- European Union [RTN-CT-2003-505227, MRTN-CT-2006-035546]
- Janos Bolyai postdoctoral fellowships
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D521749/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The formation of a nitrogen-fixing nodule requires the coordinated development of rhizobial colonization and nodule organogenesis. Based on its mutant phenotype, lumpy infections (lin), LIN functions at an early stage of the rhizobial symbiotic process, required for both infection thread growth in root hair cells and the further development of nodule primordia. We show that spontaneous nodulation activated by the calcium-and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase is independent of LIN; thus, LIN is not necessary for nodule organogenesis. From this, we infer that LIN predominantly functions during rhizobial colonization and that the abortion of this process in lin mutants leads to a suppression of nodule development. Here, we identify the LIN gene in Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus, showing that it codes for a predicted E3 ubiquitin ligase containing a highly conserved U-box and WD40 repeat domains. Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation is a universal mechanism to regulate many biological processes by eliminating rate-limiting enzymes and key components such as transcription factors. We propose that LIN is a regulator of the component(s) of the nodulation factor signal transduction pathway and that its function is required for correct temporal and spatial activity of the target protein(s).
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