VPY — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_5G026800, also known as VPY, encodes a protein containing ankyrin repeat domains and exhibits ubiquitin-protein transferase activity. This barrel medic gene is associated with diverse biological processes including nitrogen fixation, nodulation, arbuscular mycorrhizae formation, response to symbiotic bacteria and fungi, strigolactone anabolism, pigmentation, cell division, membrane polarization, protein-chloroplast targeting, secretion, phosphate ion detection, and protein K6-linked ubiquitination. The encoded protein localises to the periarbuscular membrane, chloroplast outer membrane, plasma membrane, cytosol, cytoplasm, and nucleus. VPY is also associated with the PT4 protein, which is involved in phosphate transport during mycorrhizal symbiosis.