VPY — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_5G043640 (symbol VPY) on barrel medic chromosome 5 encodes a protein containing ankyrin repeats and is associated with fatty-acyl-CoA binding, ubiquitin ligase activity, and voltage-sensitive potassium channel activity. The gene is linked to strigolactone anabolism, nitrogen fixation, nodulation, arbuscular mycorrhizae formation, response to symbiotic bacteria and fungi, pigmentation, membrane polarization, protein ubiquitination, and cell division. Its product localises to the periarbuscular membrane, endoplasmic reticulum membrane, plasma membrane, cytosol, and nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to root length.