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Plant Promoter Analysis: Identification and Characterization of Root Nodule Specific Promoter in the Common Bean
Published on: December 23, 2017
NIN-like protein transcription factors regulate leghemoglobin genes in legume nodules
Suyu Jiang1, Marie-Françoise Jardinaud2, Jinpeng Gao1
1CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS), Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS), Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
Leghemoglobins enable the endosymbiotic fixation of molecular nitrogen (N2) in legume nodules by channeling O2 for bacterial respiration while maintaining a micro-oxic environment to protect O2-sensitive nitrogenase. We found that the NIN-like protein (NLP) transcription factors NLP2 and NIN directly activate the expression of leghemoglobins through a promoter motif, resembling a “double” version of the nitrate-responsive elements (NREs) targeted by other NLPs, that has conserved orientation and position across legumes. CRISPR knockout of the NRE-like element resulted in strongly decreased expression of the associated leghemoglobin. Our findings indicate that the origins of the NLP-leghemoglobin module for O2 buffering in nodules can be traced to an ancient pairing of NLPs with nonsymbiotic hemoglobins that function in hypoxia.
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