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A Kruppel-like zinc finger protein is involved in nitrogen-fixing root nodule organogenesis.


ABSTRACT: Mechanisms regulating plant host differentiation of the nitrogen-fixing root nodules remain mostly unknown. Sinorhizobium meliloti induces this process in Medicago sativa in which the Mszpt2-1 gene is expressed in vascular bundles of roots and nodules. This gene codes for a Krüppel-like zinc finger protein, a class of transcription factors involved in many animal developmental processes. Expression of Mszpt2-1 in yeast cells conferred osmotic tolerance. Antisense plants grew normally but developed nonfunctional nodules, in which differentiation of the nitrogen-fixing zone and bacterial invasion were arrested. Hence, a vascular bundle-associated Krüppel-like gene is required for the formation of the central nitrogen-fixing zone of the root nodule.

SUBMITTER: Frugier F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC316383 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Krüppel-like zinc finger protein is involved in nitrogen-fixing root nodule organogenesis.

Frugier F F   Poirier S S   Satiat-Jeunemaître B B   Kondorosi A A   Crespi M M  

Genes & development 20000201 4


Mechanisms regulating plant host differentiation of the nitrogen-fixing root nodules remain mostly unknown. Sinorhizobium meliloti induces this process in Medicago sativa in which the Mszpt2-1 gene is expressed in vascular bundles of roots and nodules. This gene codes for a Krüppel-like zinc finger protein, a class of transcription factors involved in many animal developmental processes. Expression of Mszpt2-1 in yeast cells conferred osmotic tolerance. Antisense plants grew normally but develop  ...[more]

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