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Plant Biology / Plant biol (Stuttg) (2007) ISSN 1435-8603
Truncated Hemoglobins in Actinorhizal Nodules of Datisca glomerata
K. Pawlowski 1, 2, 3, K. R. Jacobsen 4, N. Alloisio 5, R. Ford Denison 4, 6, M. Klein 4, 7, J. D. Tjepkema 8, T. Winzer 1, A. Sirrenberg 1, 9, C. Guan 2, 10, A. M. Berry 4
(2007)

Three types of hemoglobins exist in higher plants, symbiotic, non-symbiotic, and truncated hemoglobins. Symbiotic (class II) hemoglobins play a role in oxygen supply to intracellular nitrogen-fixing symbionts in legume root nodules, and in one case (Parasponia sp.), a non-symbiotic (class I) hemoglobin has been recruited for this function. Here we report the induction of a host gene, dgtrHb1, encoding a truncated hemoglobin in Frankia-induced nodules of the actinorhizal plant Datisca glomerata. Induction takes place specifically in cells infected by the microsymbiont, prior to the onset of bacterial nitrogen fixation. A bacterial gene (Frankia trHbO) encoding a truncated hemoglobin with O2-binding kinetics suitable for the facilitation of O2 diffusion (Tjepkema et al., 2002) is also expressed in symbiosis. Nodule oximetry confirms the presence of a molecule that binds oxygen reversibly in D. glomerata nodules, but indicates a low overall hemoglobin concentration suggesting a local function. Frankia TrHbO is likely to be responsible for this activity. The function of the D. glomerata truncated hemoglobin is unknown; a possible role in nitric oxide detoxification is suggested.
1 :  Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences Department of Plant Biochemistry
Göttingen University
2 :  Department of Molecular Biology
wageningen University
3 :  Department of Botany
Stockholm University
4 :  department of plant sciences
University of California, Davis
5 :  Ecologie microbienne (EM)
CNRS : UMR5557 – INRA : UR1193 – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I – Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon
6 :  Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota,
University of Minnesota
7 :  Department of Plant Biology
Cornell University
8 :  Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maine
9 :  Molecular Phytopathology
Göttingen University
10 :  Department of Plant Pathology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Sciences de l'environnement/Biodiversité et Ecologie

Sciences du Vivant/Biochimie, Biologie Moléculaire/Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique
Nitrogen-fixing root nodules – leghemoglobin – hemoglobin – nitric oxide – glb3 – trHb.