Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 691-705Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2018.02.011
Keywords
Plasmodesmata; immunity; effector; pathogen; Fusarium; disease
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- China Scholarship Council [20120220097]
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation program under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant [676480]
- NWO-Earth and Life Sciences [865.14.003]
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Pathogens use effector proteins to manipulate their hosts. During infection of tomato, the fungus Fusarium oxysporum secretes the effectors Avr2 and Six5. Whereas Avr2 suffices to trigger I-2-mediated cell death in heterologous systems, both effectors are required for I-2-mediated disease resistance in tomato. How Six5 participates in triggering resistance is unknown. Using bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays we found that Avr2 and Six5 interact at plasmodesmata. Single-cell transformation revealed that a 2xRFP marker protein and Avr2-GFP only move to neighboring cells in the presence of Six5. Six5 alone does not alter plasmodesmatal transduction as 2xRFP was only translocated in the presence of both effectors. In SIX5-expressing transgenic plants, the distribution of virally expressed Avr2-GFP, and subsequent onset of I-2-mediated cell death, differed from that in wild-type tomato. Taken together, our data show that in the presence of Six5, Avr2 moves from cell to cell, which in susceptible plants contributes to virulence, but in I-2 containing plants induces resistance.
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