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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Jun
• Huang, Yanyan
• Kong, Liang
• Yu, Xiao
• Feng, Baomin
• Liu, Derui
• Zhao, Baoyu
• Mendes, Giselle C
• Yuan, Peiguo
• Ge, Dongdong
• Wang, Wen-Ming
• Fontes, Elizabeth P B
• Li, Pingwei
• Shan, Libo
• He, Ping

Titel

The malectin-like receptor-like kinase LETUM1 modulates NLR protein SUMM2 activation via MEKK2 scaffolding

Ist Teil von

• Nature plants, 2020-09, Vol.6 (9), p.1106-1115

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The innate immune system detects pathogen-derived molecules via specialized immune receptors to prevent infections . Plant immune receptors include cell surface-resident pattern recognition receptors (PRRs, including receptor-like kinases (RLKs)), and intracellular nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat proteins (NLRs). It remains enigmatic how RLK- and NLR-mediated signalling are connected. Disruption of an immune-activated MEKK1-MKK1/2-MPK4 MAPK cascade activates the NLR SUMM2 via the MAPK kinase kinase MEKK2, leading to autoimmunity . To gain insights into the mechanisms underlying SUMM2 activation, we used an RNA interference-based genetic screen for mekk1 autoimmune suppressors and identified an uncharacterized malectin-like RLK, named LETUM1 (LET1), as a specific regulator of mekk1-mkk1/2-mpk4 autoimmunity via complexing with both SUMM2 and MEKK2. MEKK2 scaffolds LET1 and SUMM2 for protein stability and association, and counter-regulates the F-box protein CPR1-mediated SUMM2 ubiquitination and degradation, thereby regulating SUMM2 accumulation and activation. Our study indicates that malectin-like RLK LET1 senses the perturbance of cellular homoeostasis caused by the deficiency in immune-activated signalling and activates the NLR SUMM2-mediated autoimmunity via MEKK2 scaffolding.