Salicylic Acid Activates DNA Damage Responses to Potentiate Plant Immunity

Autor: Shunping Yan, Abdelaty Saleh, Wendy E. Durrant, Rajinikanth Mohan, Junqi Song, Wei Wang, Xinnian Dong, Jorge Marqués
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Molecular Cell. 52(4):602-610
ISSN: 1097-2765
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.09.019
Popis: DNA damage is normally detrimental to living organisms. Here we show that it can also serve as a signal to promote immune responses in plants. We found that the plant immune hormone salicylic acid (SA) can trigger DNA damage in the absence of a genotoxic agent. The DNA damage sensor proteins, RAD17 and ATR, are required for effective immune responses. These sensor proteins are negatively regulated by a key immune regulator SNI1 (suppressor of npr1-1, inducible 1), which we discovered as a missing subunit of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) 5/6 complex required for controlling DNA damage. Elevated DNA damage caused by the sni1 mutation or treatment with a DNA-damaging agent markedly enhances SA-mediated defense gene expression. Our study suggests that activation of DNA damage responses is an intrinsic component of the plant immune responses.
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