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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 102, Issue 36, Pages 12990-12995Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502425102
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type III secretion system; virulence; pathogen-associated molecular patterns; basal defense; coronatine
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Arabidopsis NONHOST1 (NHO1) is required for limiting the in planta growth of nonhost Pseudomonas bacteria but completely ineffective against the virulent bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. However, the molecular basis underlying this observation remains unknown. Here we show that NHO1 is transcriptionally activated by flagellin. The nonhost bacterium P. syringae pv. tabaci lacking flagellin is unable to induce NHO1, multiplies much better than does the wild-type bacterium, and causes disease symptoms on Arabidopsis. DC3000 also possesses flagellin that is potent in NHO1 induction, but this induction is rapidly suppressed by DC3000 in a type III secretion system-dependent manner. Direct expression of DC3000 effectors in protoplasts indicated that at least nine effectors, HopS1, HopAll, HopAF1, HopT1-1, HopT1-2, HopAA1-1, HopF2, HopC1, and AvrPto, are capable of suppressing the flagellin-induced NHO1 expression. One of the effectors, HopAll, is conserved in both animal and plant bacteria. When expressed in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, HopAll promotes growth of the nonpathogenic hrpL(-) mutant bacteria. In addition, the purified phytotoxin coronatine, a known virulence factor of P. syringae, suppresses the flagellin-induced NHO1 transcription. These results demonstrate that flagellin-incluced defenses play an important role in nonhost resistance. A remarkable number of DC3000 virulence factors act in the plant cell by suppressing the species level defenses, and that contributes to the specialization of DC3000 on Arabidopsis.
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