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| DOI: 10.1126/science.1139548 |
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| Science 316 (2007) 1307 - 1312 |
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| Legumes Symbioses: Absence of Nod Genes in Photosynthetic Bradyrhizobia |
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| Eric Giraud 1Lionel Moulin 1 |
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| Leguminous plants (such as peas and soybeans) and rhizobial soil bacteria are symbiotic partners that communicate through molecular signaling pathways, resulting in the formation of nodules on legume roots and occasionally stems that house nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Nodule formation has been assumed to be exclusively initiated by the binding of bacterial, host-specific lipochito-oligosaccharidic Nod factors, encoded by the nodABC genes, to kinase-like receptors of the plant. Here we show by complete genome sequencing of two symbiotic, photosynthetic, Bradyrhizobium strains, BTAi1 and ORS278, that canonical nodABC genes and typical lipochitooligosaccharidic Nod factors are not required for symbiosis in some legumes. Mutational analyses indicated that these unique rhizobia use an alternative pathway to initiate symbioses, where a purine derivative may play a key role in triggering nodule formation. |
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| 1: | Laboratoire des symbioses tropicales et méditerranéennes (LSTM) |
| CIRAD : UMR82 – INRA – IRD – Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc – Université Montpellier I – Montpellier SupAgro | |
| 2: | Génomique métabolique (UMR 8030) |
| CNRS : UMR8030 – CEA : DSV/IG – Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne | |
| 3: | Centre National de Séquençage |
| Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne | |
| 4: | department of soil |
| Biotechnology institute – Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | |
| 5: | Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (CEA LIST) |
| CEA : DRT/LIST | |
| 6: | Structure et évolution des génomes (SEG) |
| CNRS : UMR8030 – CNS – Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne | |
| 7: | National Center of Soybean Biotechnology |
| University of Missouri-Columbia | |
| 8: | Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute New Mexico |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| 9: | Ecologie microbienne (EM) |
| CNRS : UMR5557 – INRA : UR1193 – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I – Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon | |
| 10: | Commisariat à lEnergie Atomique ((CEA)) |
| Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille II | |
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| subject | : | Environmental Sciences/Biodiversité et Ecologie Environmental Sciences/Biodiversité et Ecologie/Ecologie Life Sciences/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology Life Sciences/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Genomics |
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| From: Christine Delorme | |
| Submitted on: Monday, 4 June 2007 10:24:07 | |
| Updated on: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:37:33 | |