DspA/E, a type III effector essential for Erwinia amylovora pathogenicity and growth in planta, induces cell death in host apple and nonhost tobacco plants

Autor: Hayat El-Maarouf-Bouteau, Igor Pucheu, Marie-Noëlle Brisset, Marie-Anne Barny, Tristan Boureau, Amélie Garnier, Claude Perino
Přispěvatelé: Pathologie Végétale (PaVé), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Unité de recherche Pathologie végétale et phytobactériologie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, American Phytopathological Society, 2006, 19 (1), pp.16-24. ⟨10.1094/MPMI-19-0016⟩
ISSN: 0894-0282
Popis: Erwinia amylovora is responsible for fire blight, a necrotic disease of apples and pears. E. amylovora relies on a type III secretion system (TTSS) to induce disease on hosts and hypersensitive response (HR) on nonhost plants. The DspA/E protein is essential for E. amylovora pathogenicity and is secreted via the TTSS in vitro. DspA/E belongs to a type III effector family that is conserved in several phytopathogenic bacteria. In E. amylovora, DspA/E has been implicated in the generation of an oxidative stress during disease and the suppression of callose deposition. We investigated the fate of DspA/E in planta. DspA/E delivered artificially to apple or tobacco cells by agroinfection induced necrotic symptoms, indicating that DspA/E was probably injected via the TTSS. We confirmed that DspA/E acts as a major cell-death inducer during disease and HR, because the dspA/E mutant is severely impaired in its ability to induce electrolyte leakage in apple and tobacco leaves. Expression of the defense marker gene PR1 was delayed when dspA/E was transiently expressed in tobacco, suggesting that DspA/E-mediated necrosis may be associated with an alteration of defense responses.
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