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

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Sophie Léran, Kranthi Varala, Jean-Christophe Boyer, Maurizio Chiurazzi, Nigel Crawford, Franç, oise Daniel-Vedele, Laure David, Rebecca Dickstein, Emilio Fernandez, Brian Forde, Walter Gassmann, Dietmar Geiger, Alain Gojon, Ji-Ming Gong, Barbara A. Halkier, Jeanne M. Harris, Rainer Hedrich, Anis M. Limami, Doris Rentsch, Mitsunori Seo, Yi-Fang Tsay, Mingyong Zhang, Gloria Coruzzi, Benoî, t Lacombe

Trends in Plant Science, 2014, 19(1): 5-9 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2013.08.008; 追溯原文......本站官方QQ群：62473826

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.