Pathogens deliver effectors into plant cells to suppress immunity-related signaling. However, effector recognition by the host elicits a hypersensitive response (HR) that overcomes the inhibition of host signaling networks, restoring disease resistance. Signaling components are shared between the pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity, and it is unclear how plants inactivate these effectors to execute the HR. Here, we report that, inArabidopsis thaliana, during the onset of the HR, the bacterial effector HopAI1 isS-nitrosylated and that this modification inhibits its phosphothreonine lyase activity. HopAI1 targets and suppresses mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). TheS-nitrosylation of HopAI1 restores MAPK signaling and is required during the HR for activation of the associated cell death.S-nitrosylation is therefore revealed here as a nitric oxide-dependent host strategy involved in plant immunity that works by directly disarming effector proteins.

Host-MediatedS-Nitrosylation Disarms the Bacterial Effector HopAI1 to Reestablish Immunity

Ling, Tengfang;Bellin, Diana;Vandelle, Elodie;Imanifard, Zahra;Delledonne, Massimo
2017-01-01

Abstract

Pathogens deliver effectors into plant cells to suppress immunity-related signaling. However, effector recognition by the host elicits a hypersensitive response (HR) that overcomes the inhibition of host signaling networks, restoring disease resistance. Signaling components are shared between the pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity, and it is unclear how plants inactivate these effectors to execute the HR. Here, we report that, inArabidopsis thaliana, during the onset of the HR, the bacterial effector HopAI1 isS-nitrosylated and that this modification inhibits its phosphothreonine lyase activity. HopAI1 targets and suppresses mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). TheS-nitrosylation of HopAI1 restores MAPK signaling and is required during the HR for activation of the associated cell death.S-nitrosylation is therefore revealed here as a nitric oxide-dependent host strategy involved in plant immunity that works by directly disarming effector proteins.
2017
nitric oxide, plant resistance, plant pathogen interaction
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