VPY — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_7G031370 (symbol VPY) on barrel medic chromosome 7 encodes a protein containing ankyrin repeats and exhibiting ubiquitin ligase activity, with zinc-binding capability. The gene is associated with strigolactone anabolism, protein ubiquitination (including K6-linked ubiquitination), membrane polarization, pigmentation, nitrogen fixation, nodulation, arbuscular mycorrhizae formation, response to symbiotic fungi, phosphate ion detection, secretion, and cell division. Its product localizes to the cytosol, cytoplasm, nucleus, and plasma membrane. Related genes in other species link the ankyrin-repeat family to ubiquitin-protein transferase activity (EC 2.3.2.27).