• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The AVR2–SIX5 gene pair is required to activate I‐2‐mediated immunity in tomato
  • Beteiligte: Ma, Lisong; Houterman, Petra M.; Gawehns, Fleur; Cao, Lingxue; Sillo, Fabiano; Richter, Hanna; Clavijo‐Ortiz, Myriam J.; Schmidt, Sarah M.; Boeren, Sjef; Vervoort, Jacques; Cornelissen, Ben J. C.; Rep, Martijn; Takken, Frank L. W.
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2015
  • Erschienen in: New Phytologist
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/nph.13455
  • ISSN: 0028-646X; 1469-8137
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p> <jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Plant‐invading microbes betray their presence to a plant by exposure of antigenic molecules such as small, secreted proteins called ‘effectors’. In <jats:italic>Fusarium oxysporum</jats:italic> f. sp<jats:italic>. lycopersici</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Fol</jats:italic>) we identified a pair of effector gene candidates, <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AVR</jats:styled-content>2</jats:italic>‐<jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">SIX</jats:styled-content>5</jats:italic>, whose expression is controlled by a shared promoter.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>The pathogenicity of <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AVR</jats:styled-content>2</jats:italic> and <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">SIX</jats:styled-content>5 Fol</jats:italic> knockouts was assessed on susceptible and resistant tomato (<jats:italic>Solanum lycopersicum</jats:italic>) plants carrying <jats:italic>I‐2</jats:italic>. The I‐2 <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">NB</jats:styled-content>‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LRR</jats:styled-content> protein confers resistance to <jats:italic>Fol</jats:italic> races carrying <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AVR</jats:styled-content>2</jats:italic>.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Like Avr2, Six5 was found to be required for full virulence on susceptible plants. Unexpectedly, each knockout could breach <jats:italic>I‐2</jats:italic>‐mediated disease resistance. So whereas Avr2 is sufficient to induce <jats:italic>I‐2</jats:italic>‐mediated cell death, Avr2 and Six5 are both required for resistance. Avr2 and Six5 interact in yeast two‐hybrid assays as well as <jats:italic>in planta</jats:italic>. Six5 and Avr2 accumulate in xylem sap of plants infected with the reciprocal knockouts, showing that lack of I‐2 activation is not due to a lack of Avr2 accumulation in the <jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">SIX</jats:styled-content>5</jats:italic> mutant.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>The effector repertoire of a pathogen determines its host specificity and its ability to manipulate plant immunity. Our findings challenge an oversimplified interpretation of the gene‐for‐gene model by showing requirement of two fungal genes for immunity conferred by one resistance gene.</jats:p></jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>
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