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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 124, Issue 3, Pages 1039-1048Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.124.3.1039
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM21882] Funding Source: Medline
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The roots of the legume Dolichos biflorus contain a lectin/nucleotide phosphohydrolase (Db-LNP) that binds to the Nod factor signals produced by rhizobia that nodulate this plant. In this study we show that Db-LNP is differentially distributed along the surface of the root axis in a pattern that correlates with the zone of nodulation of the root. Db-LNP is present on the surface of young and emerging root hairs and redistributes to the tips of the root hairs in response to treatment of the roots with a rhizobial symbiont or with a carbohydrate ligand. This redistribution does not occur in response to a non-symbiotic rhizobial strain or a root pathogen. Db-LNP is also present in the root pericycle where its level decreases upon initiation of nodule formation. Maximum levels of Db-LNP are found in 2-d-old roots, and the expression of this root protein is increased when the plants are grown in the absence of NO3- and NH4+. These results support the possibility that Db-LNP is involved ii! the initiation of the Rhizobium legume symbiosis.
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