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ArticleScience advances2023

Resurrection of plant disease resistance proteins via helper NLR bioengineering.

Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Muniyandi Selvaraj, AmirAli Toghani, David M Lawson, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Clare E M Stevenson, Adeline Harant and 5 more

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Diversification and deployment of PRR and NLR immune receptors in potato.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  3. Structure-informed engineering of plant-microbe interactions.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  8. Plant NLRs are getting into higher-order architectures.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  9. Precision Editing of NLRS Improves Effector Recognition for Enhanced Disease Resistance.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  13. Rewriting the code of plant immunity.Nature biotechnology · 2025
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  15. TheProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Mauricio P ContrerasThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6002-0730
Hsuan PaiThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7284-6131
Muniyandi SelvarajThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7793-6323
AmirAli ToghaniThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0644-699X
David M LawsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7637-4303
Yasin TumtasDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7656-6340
Cian DugganDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7302-7472
Enoch Lok Him YuenDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7933-0605
Clare E M StevensonDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6695-8201
Adeline HarantThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7636-4917
Abbas MaqboolDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6189-5560
Chih-Hang WuInstitute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1616-1872
Tolga O BozkurtDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0507-6875
Sophien KamounThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0290-0315
Lida DerevninaThe Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7983-4187

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parasites counteract host immunity by suppressing helper nucleotide binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins that function as central nodes in immune receptor networks. Understanding the mechanisms of immunosuppression can lead to strategies for bioengineering disease resistance. Here, we show that a cyst nematode virulence effector binds and inhibits oligomerization of the helper NLR protein NRC2 by physically preventing intramolecular rearrangements required for activation. An amino acid polymorphism at the binding interface between NRC2 and the inhibitor is sufficient for this helper NLR to evade immune suppression, thereby restoring the activity of multiple disease resistance genes. This points to a potential strategy for resurrecting disease resistance in crop genomes.

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Disease ResistancePlant ProteinsBioengineeringHumansNLR ProteinsPlant ImmunityNLR ProteinsPlant Proteins

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PMID37134163
PMCPMC10156107

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