Cell,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
187(9), P. 2095 - 2116
Published: April 1, 2024
Plant
diseases
cause
famines,
drive
human
migration,
and
present
challenges
to
agricultural
sustainability
as
pathogen
ranges
shift
under
climate
change.
breeders
discovered
Mendelian
genetic
loci
conferring
disease
resistance
specific
isolates
over
100
years
ago.
Subsequent
breeding
for
underpins
modern
agriculture
and,
along
with
the
emergence
focus
on
model
plants
genetics
genomics
research,
has
provided
rich
resources
molecular
biological
exploration
last
50
years.
These
studies
led
identification
of
extracellular
intracellular
receptors
that
convert
recognition
microbe-encoded
patterns
or
pathogen-delivered
virulence
effectors
into
defense
activation.
receptor
systems,
downstream
responses,
define
plant
immune
systems
have
evolved
since
migration
land
∼500
million
Our
current
understanding
provides
platform
development
rational
enhancement
control
many
continue
plague
crop
production.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
62, P. 102039 - 102039
Published: April 27, 2021
The
conserved
lipase-like
protein
EDS1
transduces
signals
from
pathogen-activated
intracellular
nucleotide-binding
leucine-rich
repeat
(NLR)
receptors
to
transcriptional
defences
and
host
cell
death.
In
this
pivotal
NLR
signalling
role,
works
as
a
heterodimer
with
each
of
its
partners,
SAG101
PAD4.
Different
properties
EDS1-SAG101
EDS1-PAD4
complexes
functional
relationships
sensor
helper
NLRs
have
emerged.
dimers
confer
effector-triggered
immunity
mediated
by
TNL
receptors.
contrast,
broader
role
promoting
basal
immune
responses
that
can
be
initiated
inside
cells
TNL-
or
CNL-type
NLRs,
at
the
surface
LRR-receptor
proteins.
Characterizing
essential
elements
these
two
modules
will
help
connect
receptor
networks
in
plant
system.
Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
377(6605)
Published: July 7, 2022
In
the
20th
century,
researchers
studying
animal
and
plant
signaling
pathways
discovered
a
protein
domain
that
is
shared
across
diverse
innate
immune
systems:
Toll/interleukin-1/resistance
gene
(TIR)
domain.
The
TIR
found
in
several
architectures
was
defined
as
an
adaptor
mediates
protein-protein
interactions
immunity
developmental
pathways.
However,
studies
of
nerve
degeneration
animals-and
subsequent
breakthroughs
plant,
bacterial,
archaeal
systems-revealed
domains
possess
enzymatic
activities.
We
provide
synthesis
functions
role
various
related
products
evolutionarily
systems.
These
may
ultimately
guide
interventions
would
span
tree
life,
from
treating
human
neurodegenerative
disorders
bacterial
infections
to
preventing
diseases.
Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
377(6614)
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Cyclic
adenosine
diphosphate
(ADP)–ribose
(cADPR)
isomers
are
signaling
molecules
produced
by
bacterial
and
plant
Toll/interleukin-1
receptor
(TIR)
domains
via
nicotinamide
adenine
dinucleotide
(oxidized
form)
(NAD
+
)
hydrolysis.
We
show
that
v-cADPR
(2′cADPR)
v2-cADPR
(3′cADPR)
cyclized
O-glycosidic
bond
formation
between
the
ribose
moieties
in
ADPR.
Structures
of
2′cADPR-producing
TIR
reveal
conformational
changes
lead
to
an
active
assembly
resembles
those
Toll-like
adaptor
domains.
Mutagenesis
reveals
a
conserved
tryptophan
is
essential
for
cyclization.
3′cADPR
activator
ThsA
effector
proteins
from
antiphage
defense
system
termed
Thoeris
suppressor
immunity
when
HopAM1.
Collectively,
our
results
molecular
basis
cADPR
isomer
production
establish
bacteria
as
antiviral
immunity–suppressing
molecule.
Cell,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
187(9), P. 2095 - 2116
Published: April 1, 2024
Plant
diseases
cause
famines,
drive
human
migration,
and
present
challenges
to
agricultural
sustainability
as
pathogen
ranges
shift
under
climate
change.
breeders
discovered
Mendelian
genetic
loci
conferring
disease
resistance
specific
isolates
over
100
years
ago.
Subsequent
breeding
for
underpins
modern
agriculture
and,
along
with
the
emergence
focus
on
model
plants
genetics
genomics
research,
has
provided
rich
resources
molecular
biological
exploration
last
50
years.
These
studies
led
identification
of
extracellular
intracellular
receptors
that
convert
recognition
microbe-encoded
patterns
or
pathogen-delivered
virulence
effectors
into
defense
activation.
receptor
systems,
downstream
responses,
define
plant
immune
systems
have
evolved
since
migration
land
∼500
million
Our
current
understanding
provides
platform
development
rational
enhancement
control
many
continue
plague
crop
production.