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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 188, Issue 1, Pages 70-80Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab471
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- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/J/000PR9795, BB/V002937/1]
- European Research Council
- BBSRC [BBS/E/J/000PR9795, BB/V002937/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Nicotiana benthamiana serves as a complementary experimental system to Arabidopsis thaliana for studying plant immunity, with a vector system of 72 plasmids enabling functional studies of the ZAR1 resistosome. Research has shown NbZAR1 to be highly conserved across distantly related dicot plant species and trigger cell death response in N. benthamiana, providing a new experimental system for studying the resistosome in planta.
Nicotiana benthamiana has emerged as a complementary experimental system to Arabidopsis thaliana. It enables fast-forward in vivo analyses primarily through transient gene expression and is particularly popular in the study of plant immunity. Recently, our understanding of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) plant immune receptors has greatly advanced following the discovery of the Arabidopsis HOPZ-ACTIVATED RESISTANCE1 (ZAR1) resistosome. Here, we describe a vector system of 72 plasmids that enables functional studies of the ZAR1 resistosome in N. benthamiana. We showed that ZAR1 stands out among the coiled coil class of NLRs (CC-NLRs) for being highly conserved across distantly related dicot plant species and confirmed NbZAR1 as the N. benthamiana ortholog of Arabidopsis ZAR1. Effector-activated and autoactive NbZAR1 triggers the cell death response in N. benthamiana and this activity is dependent on a functional N-terminal alpha 1 helix. C-terminally tagged NbZAR1 remains functional in N. benthamiana, thus enabling cell biology and biochemical studies in this plant system. We conclude that the NbZAR1 open source pZA plasmid collection forms an additional experimental system to Arabidopsis for in planta resistosome studies.
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