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PLANT CELL
Volume 18, Issue 8, Pages 2082-2093Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.042747
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Plant nucleotide binding and leucine-rich repeat (NB- LRR) proteins contain a region of homology known as the ARC domain located between theNBand LRRdomains. Structural modeling suggests that theARCregion can be subdivided into ARC1 and ARC2 domains. Wehave used the potato ( Solanum tuberosum) Rx protein, which confers resistance to Potato virus X (PVX), to investigate the function of theARCregion. Wedemonstrate that the ARC1 domain is required for binding of the Rx N terminus to the LRR domain. Domain-swap experiments with Rx and a homologous disease resistance gene, Gpa2, showed that PVX recognition localized to the C-terminal half of the LRR domain. However, inappropriate pairings of LRR and ARC2 domains resulted in autoactive molecules. Thus, the ARC2 domain is required to condition an autoinhibited state in the absence of elicitor as well as for the subsequent elicitor-induced activation. Our data suggest that the ARC region, through its interaction with the LRR, translates elicitor-induced modulations of the C terminus into a signal initiation event. Furthermore, we demonstrate that physical disruption of the LRR-ARC interaction is not required for signal initiation. We propose instead that this activity can lead to multiple rounds of elicitor recognition, providing a means of signal amplification.
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