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. 2021 Aug;107(3):775-786.
doi: 10.1111/tpj.15345. Epub 2021 May 30.

The TIR-NBS protein TN13 associates with the CC-NBS-LRR resistance protein RPS5 and contributes to RPS5-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis

Huiren Cai  1 , Wei Wang  1 , Lu Rui  1 , Libo Han  1 , Mingyu Luo  1 , Na Liu  1 , Dingzhong Tang  1
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The TIR-NBS protein TN13 associates with the CC-NBS-LRR resistance protein RPS5 and contributes to RPS5-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis

Huiren Cai et al. Plant J. 2021 Aug.
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Abstract

Nucleotide-binding site (NBS)-leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain receptor (NLR) proteins play important roles in plant innate immunity by recognizing pathogen effectors. The Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR)-NBS (TN) proteins belong to a subtype of the atypical NLRs, but their function in plant immunity is poorly understood. The well-characterized Arabidopsis thaliana typical coiled-coil (CC)-NBS-LRR (CNL) protein Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae 5 (RPS5) is activated after recognizing the Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrPphB. To explore whether the truncated TN proteins function in CNL-mediated immune signaling, we examined the interactions between the Arabidopsis TN proteins and RPS5, and found that TN13 and TN21 interacted with RPS5. However, only TN13, but not TN21, was involved in the resistance to P. syringae pv. tomato (Pto) strain DC3000 carrying avrPphB, encoding the cognate effector recognized by RPS5. Moreover, the regulation of Pto DC3000 avrPphB resistance by TN13 appeared to be specific, as loss of function of TN13 did not compromise resistance to Pto DC3000 hrcC- or Pto DC3000 avrRpt2. In addition, we demonstrated that the CC and NBS domains of RPS5 play essential roles in the interaction between TN13 and RPS5. Taken together, our results uncover a direct functional link between TN13 and RPS5, suggesting that TN13 acts as a partner in modulating RPS5-activated immune signaling, which constitutes a previously unknown mechanism for TN-mediated regulation of plant immunity.

Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana; AvrPphB; NLR protein; RPS5; TN13; plant immunity.

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