VPY — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_3G085630 (symbol VPY) on barrel medic chromosome 3 encodes a protein with ankyrin repeat domains and ubiquitin-protein transferase activity. The gene is associated with strigolactone anabolism, nitrogen fixation, nodulation, arbuscular mycorrhizae formation, response to symbiotic fungi, pigmentation, cell division, secretion, membrane polarization, protein K6-linked ubiquitination, and phosphate ion detection. Its product localizes to the cytosol, plasma membrane, and nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to ankyrin domain-containing and RING-CH-type proteins, but these associations are not established for VPY itself.