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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Layered pattern receptor signaling via ethylene and endogenous elicitor peptides during Arabidopsis immunity to bacterial infection.

Nico Tintor, Annegret Ross, Kazue Kanehara, Kohji Yamada, Li Fan, Birgit Kemmerling, Thorsten Nürnberger, Kenichi Tsuda, Yusuke Saijo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82 citing papers in PubMed, 185 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nico TintorDepartment of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany.
Annegret Ross
Kazue Kanehara
Kohji Yamada
Li Fan
Birgit Kemmerling
Thorsten Nürnberger
Kenichi Tsuda
Yusuke Saijo
Max Planck Society · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DEMax Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recognition of molecular patterns characteristic of microbes or altered-self leads to immune activation in multicellular eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the leucine-rich-repeat receptor kinases FLAGELLIN-SENSING2 (FLS2) and EF-TU RECEPTOR (EFR) recognize bacterial flagellin and elongation factor EF-Tu (and their elicitor-active epitopes flg22 and elf18), respectively. Likewise, PEP1 RECEPTOR1 (PEPR1) and PEPR2 recognize the elicitor-active Pep epitopes conserved in Arabidopsis ELICITOR PEPTIDE PRECURSORs (PROPEPs). Here we reveal that loss of ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE2 (EIN2), a master signaling regulator of the phytohormone ethylene (ET), lowers sensitivity to both elf18 and flg22 in different defense-related outputs. Remarkably, in contrast to a large decrease in FLS2 expression, EFR expression and receptor accumulation remain unaffected in ein2 plants. Genome-wide transcriptome profiling has uncovered an inventory of EIN2-dependent and EFR-regulated genes. This dataset highlights important aspects of how ET modulates EFR-triggered immunity: the potentiation of salicylate-based immunity and the repression of a jasmonate-related branch. EFR requires ET signaling components for PROPEP2 activation but not for PROPEP3 activation, pointing to both ET-dependent and -independent engagement of the PEPR pathway during EFR-triggered immunity. Moreover, PEPR activation compensates the ein2 defects for a subset of EFR-regulated genes. Accordingly, ein2 pepr1 pepr2 plants exhibit additive defects in EFR-triggered antibacterial immunity, compared with ein2 or pepr1 pepr2 plants. Our findings suggest that the PEPR pathway not only mediates ET signaling but also compensates for its absence in enhancing plant immunity.

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Plant ImmunityAllelesArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBacteriaEthylenesGenes, PlantGenomeGenome, PlantHormonesMutationPeptidesPlant DiseasesSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsethyleneEthylenesHormonesPeptidesTranscription Factors

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PMID23431187
PMCPMC3625345
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