Interplay of transport vesicles during plant-fungal pathogen interaction

Abstract

Vesicle trafficking is an essential cellular process upon which many physiological processes of eukaryotic cells rely. It is usually the ‘language’ of communication among the components of the endomembrane system within a cell, between cells and between a cell and its external environment. Generally, cells have the potential to internalize membrane-bound vesicles from external sources by endocytosis. Plants constantly interact with both mutualistic and pathogenic microbes. A large part of this interaction involves the exchange of transport vesicles between the plant cells and the microbes. Usually, in a pathogenic interaction, the pathogen releases vesicles containing bioactive molecules that can modulate the host immunity when absorbed by the host cells. In response to this attack, the host cells similarly mobilize some vesicles containing pathogenesis-related compounds to the pathogen infection site to destroy the pathogen, prevent it from penetrating the host cell or annul its influence. In fact, vesicle trafficking is involved in nearly all the strategies of phytopathogen attack subsequent plant immune responses. However, this field of plant-pathogen interaction is still at its infancy when narrowed down to plant-fungal pathogen interaction in relation to exchange of transport vesicles. Herein, we summarized some recent and novel findings unveiling the involvement of transport vesicles as a crosstalk in plant-fungal phytopathogen interaction, discussed their significance and identified some knowledge gaps to direct future research in the field. The roles of vesicles trafficking in the development of both organisms are also established.

Keywords

Endosomes / Extracellular vesicles / Plant-pathogen interaction / Phytopathogens / Vesicles trafficking

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Funding

National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars(32122071); National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772106); Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2021J06015)