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Zhang J, Sun J, Chiu CH, Landry D, Li K, Wen J, Mysore KS, Fort S, Lefebvre B, Oldroyd GED, Feng F. A receptor required for chitin perception facilitates arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and distinguishes root symbiosis from immunity. Curr Biol 2024; 34:1705-1717.e6. [PMID: 38574729 PMCID: PMC11037463 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
Abstract
Plants establish symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to facilitate nutrient uptake, particularly in nutrient-limited conditions. This partnership is rooted in the plant's ability to recognize fungal signaling molecules, such as chitooligosaccharides (chitin) and lipo-chitooligosaccharides. In the legume Medicago truncatula, chitooligosaccharides trigger both symbiotic and immune responses via the same lysin-motif-receptor-like kinases (LysM-RLKs), notably CERK1 and LYR4. The nature of plant-fungal engagement is opposite according to the outcomes of immunity or symbiosis signaling, and as such, discrimination is necessary, which is challenged by the dual roles of CERK1/LYR4 in both processes. Here, we describe a LysM-RLK, LYK8, that is functionally redundant with CERK1 for mycorrhizal colonization but is not involved in chitooligosaccharides-induced immunity. Genetic mutation of both LYK8 and CERK1 blocks chitooligosaccharides-triggered symbiosis signaling, as well as mycorrhizal colonization, but shows no further impact on immunity signaling triggered by chitooligosaccharides, compared with the mutation of CERK1 alone. LYK8 interacts with CERK1 and forms a receptor complex that appears essential for chitooligosaccharides activation of symbiosis signaling, with the lyk8/cerk1 double mutant recapitulating the impact of mutations in the symbiosis signaling pathway. We conclude that this novel receptor complex allows chitooligosaccharides activation specifically of symbiosis signaling and helps the plant to differentiate between activation of these opposing signaling processes.
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- Jingyi Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK
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- Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK
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- Laboratory of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan 31326, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA; Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA; Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA
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- Université de Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CERMAV, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratory of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan 31326, France
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- Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
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Giovannetti M, Binci F, Navazio L, Genre A. Nonbinary fungal signals and calcium-mediated transduction in plant immunity and symbiosis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2024; 241:1393-1400. [PMID: 38013492 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
Abstract
Chitin oligomers (COs) are among the most common and active fungal elicitors of plant responses. Short-chain COs from symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi activate accommodation responses in the host root, while long-chain COs from pathogenic fungi are acknowledged to trigger defence responses. The modulation of intracellular calcium concentration - a common second messenger in a wide variety of plant signal transduction processes - plays a central role in both signalling pathways with distinct signature features. Nevertheless, mounting evidence suggests that plant immunity and symbiosis signalling partially overlap at multiple levels. Here, we elaborate on recent findings on this topic, highlighting the nonbinary nature of chitin-based fungal signals, their perception and their interpretation through Ca2+ -mediated intracellular signals. Based on this, we propose that plant perception of symbiotic and pathogenic fungi is less clear-cut than previously described and involves a more complex scenario in which partially overlapping and blurred signalling mechanisms act upstream of the unambiguous regulation of gene expression driving accommodation or defence responses.
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- Marco Giovannetti
- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, 10125, Torino, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, 10125, Torino, Italy
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Dallachiesa D, Aguilar OM, Lozano MJ. Improved detection and phylogenetic analysis of plant proteins containing LysM domains. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2024; 51:NULL. [PMID: 38007819 DOI: 10.1071/fp23131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
Abstract
Plants perceive N-acetyl-d-glucosamine-containing oligosaccharides that play a role in the interaction with bacteria and fungi, through cell-surface receptors containing a tight bundle of three LysM domains in their extracellular region. However, the identification of LysM domains of receptor-like kinases (RLK)/receptor-like proteins (RLP) using sequence based methods has led to some ambiguity, as some proteins have been annotated with only one or two LysM domains. This missing annotation was likely produced by the failure of the LysM hidden Markov model (HMM) from the Pfam database to correctly identify some LysM domains in proteins of plant origin. In this work, we provide improved HMMs for LysM domain detection in plants, that were built from the structural alignment of manually curated LysM domain structures from the Protein Data Bank and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. Furthermore, we evaluated different sets of ligand-specific HMMs that were able to correctly classify a limited set of fully characterised RLK/Ps by their ligand specificity. In contrast, the phylogenetic analysis of the extracellular region of RLK/Ps, or of their individual LysM domains, was unable to discriminate these proteins by their ligand specificity. The HMMs reported here will allow a more sensitive detection of plant proteins containing LysM domains and help improve their characterisation.
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- Dardo Dallachiesa
- Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular (IBBM) - CONICET-CCT La Plata - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular (IBBM) - CONICET-CCT La Plata - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular (IBBM) - CONICET-CCT La Plata - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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González-Fuente M. Who does not LYKe fungi? A plant receptor modulates defenses to facilitate the establishment of fungal symbioses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 192:707-709. [PMID: 36853025 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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- Manuel González-Fuente
- Assistant Features Editor, Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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