Proteolysis in plant immunity

Y Liu, E Jackson, X Liu, X Huang… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Compared with transcription and translation, protein degradation machineries can act faster
and be targeted to different subcellular compartments, enabling immediate regulation of …

RD21-like proteases: key effector hubs in plant-pathogen interactions

J Huang, RAL van der Hoorn - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the past decades, numerous studies have demonstrated that proteases serve as a
crucial regulatory mechanism in controlling plant immunity. In this review, we specifically …

Bioengineering secreted proteases converts divergent Rcr3 orthologs and paralogs into extracellular immune co-receptors

J Kourelis, M Schuster, F Demir, O Mattinson… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Secreted immune proteases “Required for Cladosporium resistance-3”(Rcr3) and
“Phytophthora-inhibited protease-1”(Pip1) of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) are both …

Using AlphaFold Multimer to discover interkingdom protein–protein interactions

F Homma, J Lyu, RAL van der Hoorn - The Plant Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Structural prediction by artificial intelligence can be powerful new instruments to discover
novel protein–protein interactions, but the community still grapples with the implementation …

Subtilase SBT5. 2 inactivates flagellin immunogenicity in the plant apoplast

P Buscaill, N Sanguankiattichai, F Kaschani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most angiosperm plants recognise the 22-residue flagellin (flg22) epitope in bacterial
flagellin via homologs of cell surface receptor FLS2 (flagellin sensitive-2) and mount pattern …

Subtilase SBT5. 2 inactivates flagellin immunogenicity in the plant apoplast

P Buscaill, N Sanguankiattichai, F Kaschani, J Huang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Most angiosperms recognise the flg22 epitope in bacterial flagellin via homologs of cell
surface receptor FLS2 and mount pattern-triggered immune responses. However, flg22 is …

The role and pathway of VQ family in plant growth, immunity, and stress response

J Tian, J Zhang, F Francis - Planta, 2024 - Springer
Main conclusion This review provides a detailed description of the function and mechanism
of VQ family gene, which is helpful for further research and application of VQ gene resources …

Zig, Zag, and'Zyme: leveraging structural biology to engineer disease resistance

AJ McClelland, W Ma - aBIOTECH, 2024 - Springer
Dynamic host–pathogen interactions determine whether disease will occur. Pathogen
effector proteins are central players in such disease development. On one hand, they …

Proteome Analysis of Soybean Root Apoplast Combined with AlphaFold Prediction Reveal Macrophomina phaseolina Infection Strategies and Potential Targets for …

C Veeraganti Naveen Prakash, M Sivaramakrishnan… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. is a hemibiotrophic pathogen that causes charcoal
rot (CR) disease in various legumes, including soybean. To date, no reliable resistance …

Plant Proteases Target Pathogen Outer Membrane Proteins

AJ McClelland - 2024 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Citrus greening disease, or Huanglongbing (HLB), is the most devastating disease of citrus.
Florida produces~ 10% of the citrus it did before the introduction of HLB, which is caused by …