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ArticleMolecular plant pathology2016

Identification of novel Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type III effector proteins by a machine-learning approach.

Doron Teper, David Burstein, Dor Salomon, Michael Gershovitz, Tal Pupko, Guido Sessa

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Article in Molecular plant pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Doron TeperDepartment of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
David BursteinDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Dor SalomonDepartment of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Michael GershovitzDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Tal PupkoDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Guido SessaDepartment of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Tel Aviv University · ILPlanetary Science Institute · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas euvesicatoria (Xcv) is the causal agent of bacterial spot disease in pepper and tomato. Xcv pathogenicity depends on a type III secretion (T3S) system that delivers effector proteins into host cells to suppress plant immunity and promote disease. The pool of known Xcv effectors includes approximately 30 proteins, most identified in the 85-10 strain by various experimental and computational techniques. To identify additional Xcv 85-10 effectors, we applied a genome-wide machine-learning approach, in which all open reading frames (ORFs) were scored according to their propensity to encode effectors. Scoring was based on a large set of features, including genomic organization, taxonomic dispersion, hypersensitive response and pathogenicity (hrp)-dependent expression, 5' regulatory sequences, amino acid composition bias and GC content. Thirty-six predicted effectors were tested for translocation into plant cells using the hypersensitive response (HR)-inducing domain of AvrBs2 as a reporter. Seven proteins (XopAU, XopAV, XopAW, XopAP, XopAX, XopAK and XopAD) harboured a functional translocation signal and their translocation relied on the HrpF translocon, indicating that they are bona fide T3S effectors. Remarkably, four belong to novel effector families. Inactivation of the xopAP gene reduced the severity of disease symptoms in infected plants. A decrease in cell death and chlorophyll content was observed in pepper leaves inoculated with the xopAP mutant when compared with the wild-type strain. However, populations of the xopAP mutant in infected leaves were similar in size to those of wild-type bacteria, suggesting that the reduction in virulence was not caused by impaired bacterial growth.

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Bacterial Secretion SystemsMachine LearningBacterial ProteinsBase CompositionCapsicumMutationNicotianaPhylogenyPlant CellsPlant DiseasesPlant LeavesProtein TransportXanthomonasBacterial ProteinsBacterial Secretion Systemseffectormachine learningpathogenomicspeppertype III secretion systemXanthomonas euvesicatoria

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PMID26104875
PMCPMC6638362
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