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MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 125-135Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-13-0305-R
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- Conseil General du Maine de Loire
- Region Pays de Loire (COSAVE program)
- ISAFRUIT EU project [6th PCRD]
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Fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora is the major bacterial disease of tribe Maleae, including apple. Among the proteins secreted by this bacterium, HrpN(Ea), also called harpin, is known to induce hypersensitive response in non-host plants and to form amyloid oligomers leading to pore opening in the plasma membrane and alteration of membrane homeostasis. To better understand the physiological effects of HrpNEa in the host plant, we produced transgenic apple plants expressing HrpNEa with or without a secretion signal peptide (SP). HrpNEa expressed with a SP was found to be associated within the membrane fraction, in accordance with amyloidogenic properties and the presence of transmembrane domains revealed by in silico analysis. Expression analysis of 28 apple defense-related genes revealed gene modulations in the transgenic line expressing mem-brane- targeted HrpN(Ea).. While apple transgenic trees displaying a high constitutive expression level of SP-HrpN(Ea) showed a slight reduction of infection frequency after E. amylovora inoculation, there was no decrease in the disease severity. Thus HrpNEa seems to act as an elicitor of host defenses, when localized in the host membrane.
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