ACL — Phaseolus vulgaris

Summary

PHAVU_003G248300 (PvACL) on French bean chromosome 3 encodes a member of the MES/HNL family with an alpha/beta hydrolase fold, possessing aliphatic and aromatic (S)-hydroxynitrile lyase activity, mandelonitrile lyase activity, polyneuridine-aldehyde esterase activity, and multiple methyl esterase activities (MESA, MeJA, MeIAA), as well as general carboxylesterase, lipase, and hydrolase activities. The gene is associated with defense response to insect, defense response to fungi, systemic acquired resistance, salicylic acid mediated signaling pathway, response to wounding, response to UV-B, response to cold, jasmonic acid metabolism, salicylic acid metabolism, indole alkaloid metabolism, oxylipin anabolism, phenylpropanoid anabolism, glycoside breakdown, and embryo development ending in seed dormancy. It is linked to vacuolar, cytosolic, plasma membrane, and nuclear localization. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to salt and osmotic stress tolerance, ABA sensitivity, systemic acquired resistance, spider mite resistance, and triterpene and sterol accumulation.