Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 270-278Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-20-0285-R
Keywords
AvrRps4; effector-triggered immunity (ETI); conserved arginine; lettuce; turnip
Funding
- National Science Foundation [IOS-1456181]
- Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea (SSAC) [PJ01344901]
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This study found differences in the recognition process of Pseudomonas AvrRps4 between Arabidopsis and lettuce, and identified the central conserved region of AvrRps4-N as crucial for recognition in lettuce. Additionally, the conserved arginine at position 112 (R112) was found to play a specific role in the recognition of AvrRps4-N in lettuce.
Pathogens utilize a repertoire of effectors to facilitate pathogenesis, but when the host recognizes one of them, it causes effector-triggered immunity. The Pseudomonas type III effector AvrRps4 is a bipartite effector that is processed in planta into a functional 133-amino acid N-terminus (AvrRps4-N) and 88-amino acid C-terminus (AvrRps4-C). Previous studies found AvrRps4-C to be sufficient to trigger the hypersensitive response (HR) in turnip. In contrast, our recent work found that AvrRps4-N but not AvrRps4-C triggered HR in lettuce, whereas both were required for resistance induction in Arabidopsis. Here, we initially compared AvrRps4 recognition by turnip and lettuce using transient expression. By serial truncation, we identified the central conserved region consisting of 37 amino acids as essential for AvrRps4-N recognition, whereas the putative type III secretion signal peptide or the C-terminal 13 amino acids were dispensable. Surprisingly, the conserved arginine at position 112 (R112) that is required for full-length AvrRps4 processing is also required for the recognition of AvrRps4-N by lettuce. Mutating R112 to hydrophobic leucine or negatively charged glutamate abolished the HR-inducing capacity of AvrRps4-N, while a positively charged lysine at this position resulted in a slow and weak HR. Together, our results suggest an AvrRps4-N recognition-specific role of R112 in lettuce.
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