A unified nomenclature of NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER family members in plants.

By S. Léran, Kranthi Varala, J. Boyer, M. Chiurazzi, N. Crawford, F. Daniel-vedele, L. David, R. Dickstein, E. Fernández, B. Forde and 14 more. Trends in Plant Science, 2014

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Members of the plant NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER (NRT1/PTR) family display protein sequence homology with the SLC15/PepT/PTR/POT family of peptide transporters in animals. In comparison to their animal and bacterial counterparts, these plant proteins transport a wide variety of substrates: nitrate, peptides, amino acids, dicarboxylates, glucosinolates, IAA, and ABA. The phylogenetic relationship of the members of the NRT1/PTR family in 31 fully sequenced plant genomes allowed the identification of unambiguous clades, defining eight subfamilies. The phylogenetic tree was used to determine a unified nomenclature of this family named NPF, for NRT1/PTR FAMILY. We propose that the members should be named accordingly: NPFX.Y, where X denotes the subfamily and Y the individual member within the species.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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• Inorganic Nitrogen Uptake and Transport in Beneficial Plant Root-Microbe Interactions (2015, background): “FAMILIES IN PLANTS AND SYMBIOTIC UNDERGROUND PARTNERS A unified nomenclature of nitrate transporter (NTR) family members in plants has been recently established (Tsay et al., 2007; Léran et al., 2013).”