Happy to share our newest paper. It all started when Chao was still in the lab. He took the project with him to China and finished it off. Here, we show that cell wall pectins are continuously secreted to the symbiosome space. As they have antimicrobial activity, the are constantly cleared by symbiosis-specific polygalacturonases during active symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Have a look:
Gao Y, Chen L, Yang W, Yue T, Li Q, Chen K, Yuan J, Li X, Ott T*, Su C* (2025)
Symbiosome functionality in Medicago truncatula nodules requires continuous clearing of pectins from the symbiosome space
Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67404-1
