scholarly journals Lessons in effector and NLR biology of plant-microbe systems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Białas ◽  
Erin K. Zess ◽  
Juan Carlos De la Concepcion ◽  
Marina Franceschetti ◽  
Helen G. Pennington ◽  
...  

A diversity of plant-associated organisms secrete effectors—proteins and metabolites that modulate plant physiology to favor host infection and colonization. However, effectors can also activate plant immune receptors, notably nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-containing (NLR) proteins, enabling plants to fight off invading organisms. This interplay between effectors, their host targets, and the matching immune receptors is shaped by intricate molecular mechanisms and exceptionally dynamic coevolution. In this article, we focus on three effectors, AVR-Pik, AVR-Pia, and AVR-Pii, from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn. Pyricularia oryzae), and their corresponding rice NLR immune receptors, Pik, Pia, and Pii, to highlight general concepts of plant-microbe interactions. We draw 12 lessons in effector and NLR biology that have emerged from studying these three little effectors and are broadly applicable to other plant-microbe systems.

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Białas ◽  
Erin K. Zess ◽  
Juan Carlos De la Concepcion ◽  
Marina Franceschetti ◽  
Helen G. Pennington ◽  
...  

A diversity of plant-associated organisms secrete effectors—proteins and metabolites that modulate plant physiology to favor host infection and colonization. However, effectors can also activate plant immune receptors, notably nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat region (NLR)-containing proteins, enabling plants to fight off invading organisms. This interplay between effectors, their host targets, and the matching immune receptors is shaped by intricate molecular mechanisms and exceptionally dynamic coevolution. In this article, we focus on three effectors, AVR-Pik, AVR-Pia, and AVR-Pii, from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn. Pyricularia oryzae), and their corresponding rice NLR immune receptors, Pik, Pia, and Pii, to highlight general concepts of plant-microbe interactions. We draw 12 lessons in effector and NLR biology that have emerged from studying these three little effectors and are broadly applicable to other plant-microbe systems.


2021 ◽  
pp. 103562
Author(s):  
Alice Bisola Eseola ◽  
Lauren S. Ryder ◽  
Míriam Osés-Ruiz ◽  
Kim Findlay ◽  
Xia Yan ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis P Sandjo ◽  
Eckhard Thines ◽  
Till Opatz ◽  
Anja Schüffler

Four new polyketides have been identified in culture filtrates of the fungal strain Penicillium sp. IBWF104-06 isolated from a soil sample. They are structurally based on the same trans-decalinpentanoic acid skeleton as tanzawaic acids A–H. One of the new compounds was found to inhibit the conidial germination in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae at concentrations of 25 μg/mL.


Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6088) ◽  
pp. 1590-1595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. F. Dagdas ◽  
K. Yoshino ◽  
G. Dagdas ◽  
L. S. Ryder ◽  
E. Bielska ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Marconi ◽  
Ane Sesma ◽  
Julio Luis Rodríguez-Romero ◽  
María Lourdes Rosano González ◽  
Mark D. Wilkinson

mSystems ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiling Liang ◽  
Shulin Zhang ◽  
Lihong Dong ◽  
Yanjun Kou ◽  
Chaoxiang Lin ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae poses a great threat to global food security. During its conidiation (asexual spore formation) and appressorium (infecting structure) formation, autophagy is induced, serving glycogen breakdown or programmed cell death function, both essential for M. oryzae pathogenicity. Recently, we identified an M. oryzae histone acetyltransferase (HAT) Gcn5 as a key regulator in phototropic induction of autophagy and asexual spore formation while serving a cellular function other than autophagy induction during M. oryzae infection. To further understand the regulatory mechanism of Gcn5 on M. oryzae pathogenicity, we set out to identify more Gcn5 substrates by comparative acetylome between the wild-type (WT) and GCN5 overexpression (OX) mutant and between OX mutant and GCN5 deletion (knockout [KO]) mutant. Our results showed that Gcn5 regulates autophagy induction and other important aspects of fungal pathogenicity, including energy metabolism, stress response, cell toxicity and death, likely via both epigenetic regulation (histone acetylation) and posttranslational modification (nonhistone protein acetylation). IMPORTANCE Gcn5 is a histone acetyltransferase that was previously shown to regulate phototropic and starvation-induced autophagy in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, likely via modification on autophagy protein Atg7. In this study, we identified more potential substrates of Gcn5-mediated acetylation by quantitative and comparative acetylome analyses. By epifluorescence microscopy and biochemistry experiments, we verified that Gcn5 may regulate autophagy induction at both the epigenetic and posttranslational levels and regulate autophagic degradation of a critical metabolic enzyme pyruvate kinase (Pk) likely via acetylation. Overall, our findings reveal comprehensive posttranslational modification executed by Gcn5, in response to various external stimuli, to synergistically promote cellular differentiation in a fungal pathogen.


2017 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory B. Jenkinson ◽  
Kiersun Jones ◽  
Jie Zhu ◽  
Sara Dorhmi ◽  
Chang Hyun Khang

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