LAP1 — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_4G130860 (MtLAP1) encodes a leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) family protein with metalloaminopeptidase, dipeptidase, and aminopeptidase activities, as well as protein folding chaperone and DNA-binding transcription factor activity. The gene is associated with proanthocyanidin, strigolactone, anthocyanin, and flavonoid anabolism, nitrogen fixation, proteolysis, response to heat, bacteria, insects, and low humidity, guard cell fate commitment and differentiation, pigmentation, memory, and upregulation of cell differentiation and downregulation of cell division. It is linked to vegetative growth, stress tolerance, leaf senescence, amino acid metabolism, guard cell and stomatal development, immunity to Botrytis cinerea, root gravitropism, and myrosin cell development. The protein localizes to the vacuole, chloroplast stroma, cytosol, plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to stress response, Cys-Gly peptide and glutathione degradation, heat stress tolerance, and stomatal development.