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PLANT CELL 19 (4): 1221-1234

Copyright © 2007 by the American Society of Plant Physiologists.

An ERF Transcription Factor in Medicago truncatula That Is Essential for Nod Factor Signal Transduction[W]

Patrick H. Middletona,1, Júlia Jakabb,1, R. Varma Penmetsac,1, Colby G. Starkerd,2, Jake Dolld, Péter Kalóa,b, Radhika Prabhuc, John F. Marsha, Raka M. Mitrad, Attila Kereszte, Brigitta Dudasb, Kathryn VandenBoschf, Sharon R. Longd, Doug R. Cookc, Gyorgy B. Kissb,e, and Giles E.D. Oldroyda,3

a Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
b Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, 2100 Gödöllo, Hungary
c Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California 95616
d Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
e Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center, 6726 Szeged, Hungary
f Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

3 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail giles.oldroyd{at}bbsrc.ac.uk; fax 44-1603-450045.

Abstract: Rhizobial bacteria activate the formation of nodules on the appropriate host legume plant, and this requires the bacterial signaling molecule Nod factor. Perception of Nod factor in the plant leads to the activation of a number of rhizobial-induced genes. Putative transcriptional regulators in the GRAS family are known to function in Nod factor signaling, but these proteins have not been shown to be capable of direct DNA binding. Here, we identify an ERF transcription factor, ERF Required for Nodulation (ERN), which contains a highly conserved AP2 DNA binding domain, that is necessary for nodulation. Mutations in this gene block the initiation and development of rhizobial invasion structures, termed infection threads, and thus block nodule invasion by the bacteria. We show that ERN is necessary for Nod factor–induced gene expression and for spontaneous nodulation activated by the calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, DMI3, which is a component of the Nod factor signaling pathway. We propose that ERN is a component of the Nod factor signal transduction pathway and functions downstream of DMI3 to activate nodulation gene expression.

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