NLR receptors in plant immunity: making sense of the alphabet soup

MP Contreras, D Lüdke, H Pai, AA Toghani… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Plants coordinately use cell‐surface and intracellular immune receptors to perceive
pathogens and mount an immune response. Intracellular events of pathogen recognition are …

[HTML][HTML] Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi

M Figueroa, D Ortiz, EC Henningsen - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Fungal pathogens can secrete hundreds of effectors, some of which are known to promote
host susceptibility. This biological complexity, together with the lack of genetic tools in some …

New recognition specificity in a plant immune receptor by molecular engineering of its integrated domain

S Cesari, Y **, N Declerck, V Chalvon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat domain proteins (NLRs) are immune
sensors that recognize pathogen effectors. Here, we show that molecular engineering of the …

Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

JHR Maidment, M Shimizu, AR Bentham, S Vera… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
A subset of plant intracellular NLR immune receptors detect effector proteins, secreted by
phytopathogens to promote infection, through unconventional integrated domains which …

Surface frustration re-patterning underlies the structural landscape and evolvability of fungal orphan candidate effectors

MC Derbyshire, S Raffaele - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Pathogens secrete effector proteins to subvert host physiology and cause disease. Effectors
are engaged in a molecular arms race with the host resulting in conflicting evolutionary …

Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface toward a conserved fungal pathogen effector

R Zdrzałek, Y **, T Langner, AR Bentham… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Bioengineering of plant immune receptors has emerged as a key strategy for generating
novel disease resistance traits to counteract the expanding threat of plant pathogens to …

A blast fungus zinc-finger fold effector binds to a hydrophobic pocket in host Exo70 proteins to modulate immune recognition in rice

JC De la Concepcion, K Fujisaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Exocytosis plays an important role in plant–microbe interactions, in both pathogenesis and
symbiosis. Exo70 proteins are integral components of the exocyst, an octameric complex …

Multiple variants of the fungal effector AVR-Pik bind the HMA domain of the rice protein OsHIPP19, providing a foundation to engineer plant defense

JHR Maidment, M Franceschetti, A Maqbool… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Microbial plant pathogens secrete effector proteins, which manipulate the host to promote
infection. Effectors can be recognized by plant intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich …

Molecular engineering of plant immune receptors for tailored crop disease resistance

L Cadiou, F Brunisholz, S Cesari, T Kroj - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The specific recognition of pathogen effectors by intracellular nucleotide-binding and
leucine-rich repeat domain receptors (NLRs) is an important component of plant immunity …

Show me your ID: NLR immune receptors with integrated domains in plants

C Marchal, VA Michalopoulou, Z Zou… - Essays in …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are intracellular plant immune
receptors that recognize pathogen effectors secreted into the plant cell. Canonical NLRs …