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ArticlePloS one2012

IRE1/bZIP60-mediated unfolded protein response plays distinct roles in plant immunity and abiotic stress responses.

Adrian A Moreno, M Shahid Mukhtar, Francisca Blanco, Jon Lucas Boatwright, Ignacio Moreno, Melissa R Jordan, Yani Chen, Federica Brandizzi, Xinnian Dong, Ariel Orellana and 1 more

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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128 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 232 citations in OpenAlex.

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Adrian A MorenoFONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Núcleo Milenio en Biotecnología Celular Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
M Shahid Mukhtar
Francisca Blanco
Jon Lucas Boatwright
Ignacio Moreno
Melissa R Jordan
Yani Chen
Federica Brandizzi
Xinnian Dong
Ariel Orellana
Karolina M Pajerowska-Mukhtar
Universidad Andrés Bello · CLUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USMichigan State University · USDuke University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mediated protein secretion and quality control have been shown to play an important role in immune responses in both animals and plants. In mammals, the ER membrane-located IRE1 kinase/endoribonuclease, a key regulator of unfolded protein response (UPR), is required for plasma cell development to accommodate massive secretion of immunoglobulins. Plant cells can secrete the so-called pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins with antimicrobial activities upon pathogen challenge. However, whether IRE1 plays any role in plant immunity is not known. Arabidopsis thaliana has two copies of IRE1, IRE1a and IRE1b. Here, we show that both IRE1a and IRE1b are transcriptionally induced during chemically-induced ER stress, bacterial pathogen infection and treatment with the immune signal salicylic acid (SA). However, we found that IRE1a plays a predominant role in the secretion of PR proteins upon SA treatment. Consequently, the ire1a mutant plants show enhanced susceptibility to a bacterial pathogen and are deficient in establishing systemic acquired resistance (SAR), whereas ire1b is unaffected in these responses. We further demonstrate that the immune deficiency in ire1a is due to a defect in SA- and pathogen-triggered, IRE1-mediated cytoplasmic splicing of the bZIP60 mRNA, which encodes a transcription factor involved in the expression of UPR-responsive genes. Consistently, IRE1a is preferentially required for bZIP60 splicing upon pathogen infection, while IRE1b plays a major role in bZIP60 processing upon Tunicamycin (Tm)-induced stress. We also show that SA-dependent induction of UPR-responsive genes is altered in the bzip60 mutant resulting in a moderate susceptibility to a bacterial pathogen. These results indicate that the IRE1/bZIP60 branch of UPR is a part of the plant response to pathogens for which the two Arabidopsis IRE1 isoforms play only partially overlapping roles and that IRE1 has both bZIP60-dependent and bZIP60-independent functions in plant immunity.

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Plant ImmunityUnfolded Protein ResponseArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsEndoribonucleasesProtein IsoformsProtein KinasesTranscriptional ActivationTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsbZIP60 protein, ArabidopsisEndoribonucleasesIre1-1 protein, ArabidopsisIre1-2 protein, ArabidopsisProtein IsoformsProtein KinasesTranscription Factors

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PMID22359644
PMCPMC3281089
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