María Florencia Ercoli, Dee Dee Luu, Ellen Youngsoo Rim, Alexandra Shigenaga, Artur Teixeira de Araujo Jr, Mawsheng Chern, Rashmi Jain, Randy Ruan, Anna Joe, Valley Stewart, and Pamela Ronald
PNAS February 22, 2022 119 (8) e2121568119
Significance
The mechanisms plants employ to resist infection were unknown until just a few decades ago. We now understand that plants utilize diverse classes of immune receptors to recognize and respond to pathogenic microbes and pests. This paper describes the development of the plant immunity field, from early studies on the genetics of disease resistance to our increasing knowledge of how plant receptors interact with their microbial ligands, with an emphasis on the rice immune receptor XA21 and its bacterial ligand.
Abstract
In this article, we describe the development of the plant immunity field, starting with efforts to understand the genetic basis for disease resistance, which ∼30 y ago led to the discovery of diverse classes of immune receptors that recognize and respond to infectious microbes. We focus on knowledge gained from studies of the rice XA21 immune receptor that recognizes RaxX (required for activation of XA21 mediated immunity X), a sulfated microbial peptide secreted by the gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. XA21 is representative of a large class of plant and animal immune receptors that recognize and respond to conserved microbial molecules. We highlight the complexity of this large class of receptors in plants, discuss a possible role for RaxX in Xanthomonas biology, and draw attention to the important role of sulfotyrosine in mediating receptor–ligand interactions.
See: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2121568119
![Plant immunity: Rice XA21-mediated resistance to bacterial infection](/Images_upload/images/New Picture (13)(146).png)
Figure 4: The raxX-raxSTAB divergent transcription control region. The raxX-raxSTAB gene cluster includes the 431 bp control region (Inset) between the raxST and raxX initiation codons. Relative locations are shown for the –10 box sequences (blue), PIP box sequences (green), and predicted transcription initiation sites (arrows). Drawn to scale.
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