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Petre, Benjamin, Saunders, Diane G. O., Sklenar, Jan, Lorrain, Cécile, Win, Joe, Duplessis, Sébastien and Kamoun, Sophien 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315
(2015)
Candidate effector proteins of the rust pathogen Melampsora larici-populina target diverse plant cell compartments.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 28 (6).
pp. 689-700.
ISSN 0894-0282
Abstract
Rust fungi are devastating crop pathogens that deliver effector proteins into infected tissues to modulate plant functions and promote parasitic growth. The genome of the poplar leaf rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina revealed a large catalog of secreted proteins, some of which have been considered candidate effectors. Unraveling how these proteins function in host cells is a key to understanding pathogenicity mechanisms and developing resistant plants. In this study, we used an effectoromics pipeline to select, clone, and express 20 candidate effectors in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf cells to determine their subcellular localization and identify the plant proteins they interact with. Confocal microscopy revealed that six candidate effectors target the nucleus, nucleoli, chloroplasts, mitochondria, and discrete cellular bodies. We also used coimmunoprecipitation (coIP) and mass spectrometry to identify 606 N. benthamiana proteins that associate with the candidate effectors. Five candidate effectors specifically associated with a small set of plant proteins that may represent biologically relevant interactors. We confirmed the interaction between the candidate effector MLP124017 and TOPLESS-related protein 4 from poplar by in planta coIP. Altogether, our data enable us to validate effector proteins from M. larici-populina and reveal that these proteins may target multiple compartments and processes in plant cells. It also shows that N. benthamiana can be a powerful heterologous system to study effectors of obligate biotrophic pathogens.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > The Sainsbury Laboratory Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2016 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59182 |
| DOI: | 10.1094/MPMI-01-15-0003-R |
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