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17 th <strong>International</strong> Congress on <strong>Nitrogen</strong> <strong>Fixation</strong><br />

Fremantle, Western Australia<br />

27 November – 1 December 2011<br />

Titles Differential activation of CCAMK between root nodule and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses<br />

Authors Yoshikazu Shimoda 1 , Lu Han 1 , Makoto Hayashi 1 , Haruko Imaizumi-Anraku 1<br />

Poster Board Number 10<br />

1 National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Division of Plant Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki<br />

305-8602, Japan<br />

Leguminous plants can form mutually beneficial endosymbioses with rhizobial bacteria and arbuscular<br />

mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Recent genetic studies in model legumes have revealed that the two symbiotic systems<br />

share a common signaling pathway (CSP), which is essential for the induction of cytosolic Ca 2+ spiking in<br />

response to infection signal molecules derived from rhizobia or AM fungi. Among the components of CSP,<br />

Ca 2+ /calmodulin(CaM)-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK) is downstream of Ca 2+ spiking and thought to be an<br />

ideal decoder for microsymbionts-induced Ca 2+ signals, because of its domain structure including CaM binding<br />

domain and EF hand motifs. Recent studies have identified crucial roles of CCaMK for bacterial/fungal<br />

infections and nodule organogenesis. However, it remains unknown how CCaMK is activated differentially in<br />

response to Ca 2+ signals induced by rhizobia or AM fungi.<br />

In order to elucidate the difference of CCaMK activation mechanisms during RN and AM symbioses, we carried<br />

out a detailed complementation analysis of ccamk mutant of Lotus japonicus with various kinds of mutated<br />

CCaMKs. We also analyzed epistatic relationships among CCaMK functional domains by combining the<br />

mutations of each domain to clarify the involvement of the domains in Ca 2+ -dependent activation of CCaMK. In<br />

this presentation, we propose an activation mechanism of CCaMK in which RN and AM symbioses are<br />

distinguished by differential regulation of CCaMK by Ca 2+ signals.<br />

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2011

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