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Members of group Bacillus are most widely occurring microbes in agricultural soil and they affect crop health in various ways. They directly stimulate plant growth either by augmenting nutrients availability, invigorating plants' defence mechanisms; repressing soil-borne phytopathogens or by producing growth-regulating hormones like auxins and cytokinins. It is a well known fact that indole-3- acetic acid (a type of auxin) is a vital biologically active phytohormone excreted by certain Bacillus species, but its molecular mechanism has not yet been described. In this study, the auxin efflux carrier gene is isolated from the metagenome of the Tapta Kund hot spring, Uttrakhand, India. In addition, auxin efflux carrier (AEC) transporter protein of Bacillus licheniformis is modeled and the 318 amino acid residues long protein was found homologous to the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) of Yersinia frederiksnii, with 10 transmembrane segments (TM1-10) split into different domains: a panel domain defined by TM1, 2, 6 and 7; and a core domain defined by TM3-5 and 8-10. Finally, the predicted Bacillus licheniformis AEC protein has also been phylogenetically evaluated and its detailed molecular transport mechanism was worked out using molecular dynamics simulation analysis. Conclusively, this study demonstrates the efflux mechanism of the substrate, Indole 3- acetic acid by AEC transporter protein. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Nidhi Rai, Vikas Kumar, Monica Sharma, Yusuf Akhter. Auxin transport mechanism of membrane transporter encoded by AEC gene of Bacillus licheniformis isolated from metagenome of Tapta Kund Hotspring of Uttrakhand, India. International journal of biological macromolecules. 2021 Aug 31;185:277-286

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