EDS1 modules as two-tiered receptor complexes for TIR-catalyzed signaling molecules to activate plant immunity

Abstract

Plant intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors with an N-terminal Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain detect pathogen effectors to produce TIR-catalyzed signaling molecules for activation of plant immunity. Plant immune signaling by TIR-containing NLR (TNL) proteins converges on Enhanced Disease Susceptibility 1 (EDS1) and its direct partners Phytoalexin Deficient 4 (PAD4) or Senescence-Associated Gene 101 (SAG101). TNL signaling also require helper NLRs N requirement gene 1 (NRG1) and activated disease resistance 1 (ADR1). In two recent remarkable papers published in Science, the authors show that the TIR-containing proteins catalyze and produce two types of signaling molecules, ADPr-ATP/diADPR and pRib-AMP/ADP. Importantly, they demonstrate that EDS1-SAG101 and EDS1-PAD4 modules are the receptor complexes for ADPr-ATP/diADPRp and Rib-AMP/ADP, respectively, which allosterically promote EDS1-SAG101 interaction with NRG1 and EDS1-PAD4 interaction with ADR1. Thus, two different small molecules catalyzed by TIR-containing proteins selectively activate the downstream two distinct branches of EDS1-mediated immune signalings. These breakthrough studies significantly advance our understanding of TNL downstream signaling pathway.

Keywords

NLR receptor / Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor domain / EDS1 / PAD4 / SAG101 / Signaling molecule / Plant immunity

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(31870143)