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ArticleNature2011

S-nitrosylation of NADPH oxidase regulates cell death in plant immunity.

Byung-Wook Yun, Angela Feechan, Minghui Yin, Noor B B Saidi, Thierry Le Bihan, Manda Yu, John W Moore, Jeong-Gu Kang, Eunjung Kwon, Steven H Spoel and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 261 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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261citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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261 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 699 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Byung-Wook YunInstitute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK.
Angela Feechan
Minghui Yin
Noor B B Saidi
Thierry Le Bihan
Manda Yu
John W Moore
Jeong-Gu Kang
Eunjung Kwon
Steven H Spoel
Jacqueline A Pallas
Gary J Loake
University of Edinburgh · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversiti Putra Malaysia · MY

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D011809/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D019621/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H000984/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in redox status are a conspicuous feature of immune responses in a variety of eukaryotes, but the associated signalling mechanisms are not well understood. In plants, attempted microbial infection triggers the rapid synthesis of nitric oxide and a parallel accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates, the latter generated by NADPH oxidases related to those responsible for the pathogen-activated respiratory burst in phagocytes. Both nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediates have been implicated in controlling the hypersensitive response, a programmed execution of plant cells at sites of attempted infection. However, the molecular mechanisms that underpin their function and coordinate their synthesis are unknown. Here we show genetic evidence that increases in cysteine thiols modified using nitric oxide, termed S-nitrosothiols, facilitate the hypersensitive response in the absence of the cell death agonist salicylic acid and the synthesis of reactive oxygen intermediates. Surprisingly, when concentrations of S-nitrosothiols were high, nitric oxide function also governed a negative feedback loop limiting the hypersensitive response, mediated by S-nitrosylation of the NADPH oxidase, AtRBOHD, at Cys 890, abolishing its ability to synthesize reactive oxygen intermediates. Accordingly, mutation of Cys 890 compromised S-nitrosothiol-mediated control of AtRBOHD activity, perturbing the magnitude of cell death development. This cysteine is evolutionarily conserved and specifically S-nitrosylated in both human and fly NADPH oxidase, suggesting that this mechanism may govern immune responses in both plants and animals.

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Plant ImmunityAnimalsApoptosisArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsConserved SequenceCysteineDrosophila melanogasterFeedback, PhysiologicalHumansMutant ProteinsMutationNADH, NADPH OxidoreductasesNADPH OxidasesNitric OxidePlant CellsArabidopsis ProteinsCysteineMutant ProteinsNADH, NADPH OxidoreductasesNADPH OxidasesNitric OxideReactive Oxygen SpeciesSalicylic AcidSulfhydryl Compounds

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