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Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface
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Bozkurt, T. O., Schornack, S., Win, J., Shindo, T., Ilyas, M., Oliva, R., Cano, L. M., Jones, Alexandra M., Huitema, E., van der Hoorn, R. A. L. and Kamoun, S. (2011) Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 108 (Number 51). pp. 20832-20837. doi:10.1073/pnas.1112708109 ISSN 0027-8424.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112708109
Abstract
In response to pathogen attack, plant cells secrete antimicrobial molecules at the site of infection. However, how plant pathogens interfere with defense-related focal secretion remains poorly known. Here we show that the host-translocated RXLR-type effector protein AVRblb2 of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans focally accumulates around haustoria, specialized infection structures that form inside plant cells, and promotes virulence by interfering with the execution of host defenses. AVRblb2 significantly enhances susceptibility of host plants to P. infestans by targeting the host papain-like cysteine protease C14 and specifically preventing its secretion into the apoplast. Plants altered in C14 expression were significantly affected in susceptibility to P. infestans in a manner consistent with a positive role of C14 in plant immunity. Our findings point to a unique counterdefense strategy that plant pathogens use to neutralize secreted host defense proteases. Effectors, such as AVRblb2, can be used as molecular probes to dissect focal immune responses at pathogen penetration sites.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | ||||
Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences | ||||
ISSN: | 0027-8424 | ||||
Official Date: | 5 December 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 108 | ||||
Number: | Number 51 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 20832-20837 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1112708109 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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