A targeted bioinformatics approach identifies highly variable cell surface proteins that are unique to Glomeromycotina.

ABSTRACT: Diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) contributes to biodiversity and resilience in natural environments and healthy agricultural systems. Functional complementarity exists among species of AMF in symbiosis with their plant hosts, but the molecular basis of this is not known. We hypothesise this is in part due to the difficulties that current sequence assembly methodologies have assembling sequences for intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) due to their low sequence complexity. IDPs are potential candidates for functional complementarity because they often exist as extended (non-globular) proteins providing additional amino acids for molecular interactions. Rhizophagus irregularis arabinogalactan-protein-like proteins (AGLs) are small secreted IDPs with no known orthologues in

SUBMITTER: Schultz CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8786786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature