Chitinases in root nodules

Peptidohydrolases of Soybean Root Nodules

Nodule extracts prepared from Glycine max var Woodworth possessed endopeptidase, aminoptidase, and carboxypeptidase actiities. Three distinct endopeptidase activities could be resolved by disc-gel electrophoresis at pH 8.8. According to their order of increasing electrophoretic mobility, the first of these enzymes hydrolyzed azocasein and n-benzoyl-LLeu-p8-naphthylamide, while the second hydrol...

Carbon Partitioning in Nitrogen-fixing Root Nodules

Entomocidal Gene in Its Root Nodules

A region of DNA which determined the production of the insecticidal toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis was cloned into a derivative of a broad-host-range group IncQ plasmid vector of gram-negative bacteria. The plasmid which we constructed was transferred by conjugative mobilization into a Bradyrhizobium species that nodulates pigeon peas. In this species the construction was ma...

Ascorbate peroxidase from soybean root nodules.

AP is involved in the destruction of harmful H202. In soybean (Glycine m a x [LI Merr.) root nodules, AP initiates a sequence of coupled redox reactions (ascorbate-GSH pathway) that results in peroxide scavenging (Dalton et al., 1986). The ascorbate-GSH pathway occurs in other plant tissues and has been extensively studied in chloroplasts where photoreducing conditions lead to the production of...

Function of glutathione peroxidases in legume root nodules

Glutathione peroxidases (Gpxs) are antioxidant enzymes not studied so far in legume nodules, despite the fact that reactive oxygen species are produced at different steps of the symbiosis. The function of two Gpxs that are highly expressed in nodules of the model legume Lotus japonicus was examined. Gene expression analysis, enzymatic and nitrosylation assays, yeast cell complementation, in sit...