Claim · model-written summary
PACE was essential for restoring infection threads in nin mutants of Lotus japonicus.
- Taxon
- Lotus japonicus
Lotus japonicuse1
- Material
- nin mutantse1
- Treatment
- PACEe1
- Gene
- NINe0
- Outcome
- infection threadse1
- Direction
- restoringe1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Here we discovered-within the promoter of the transcription factor gene Nodule Inception (NIN)-a cis-regulatory element (PACE), exclusively present in members of this clade”
e1“PACE was essential for restoring infection threads in nin mutants of the legume Lotus japonicus”
Title
A novel cis-element enabled bacterial uptake by plant cells
Chloé Cathebras; Xiaoyun Gong; Rosa Elena Andrade; et al. Nature Plants 2026. doi:10.1038/s41477-025-02161-z
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation PACE sequence variants from root nodule symbiosis-competent species appeared functionally equivalent.
- Association Evolutionary loss or mutation of PACE is associated with loss of root nodule symbiosis in flowering plants.
- Observation During early nodule development, PACE dictates gene expression in a spatially restricted domain of cortical cells carrying infection threads in Lotus japonicus.
- Intervention effect PACE-driven NIN expression restored the formation of cortical infection threads in tomato when engineered into the tomato NIN promoter.
- Mechanism PACE connected NIN to a pre-existing symbiosis signal transduction cascade that governs intracellular accommodation of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi, conserved throughout land plants.