植物学报 ›› 2019, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (3): 288-292.DOI: 10.11983/CBB19035

所属专题: 逆境生物学专辑 (2019年54卷2期)

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开启防御之门: 植物抗病小体

夏石头1,*(),李昕2,*()   

  1. 1. 湖南农业大学, 生物科学技术学院, 植物激素与生长发育湖南省重点实验室, 长沙 410128
    2. 加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学, 植物学系, 迈克·史密斯实验中心, 温哥华 V6T 1Z4;
  • 收稿日期:2019-02-23 接受日期:2019-04-03 出版日期:2019-07-01 发布日期:2019-05-20
  • 通讯作者: 夏石头,李昕

Open a Door of Defenses: Plant Resistosome

Shitou Xia1,*(),Xin Li2,*()   

  1. 1. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
    2. Michael Smith Laboratories,Department of Botany, University Columbia,Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4,Canada
  • Received:2019-02-23 Accepted:2019-04-03 Online:2019-07-01 Published:2019-05-20
  • Contact: Shitou Xia,Xin Li

摘要: NLR蛋白是存在于植物和动物中的一个免疫受体大家族, 具有核苷酸结合域并富含亮氨酸重复序列。植物NLR通过识别病原菌特异效应子开启免疫信号转导。第1个植物NLR抗性蛋白于25年前克隆, 但其激活机制仍不清楚, 至今仍未获得一个完整的NLR蛋白结构。最近, 柴继杰、周俭民和王宏伟实验室合作解析了第一个植物完整NLR ZAR1激活前后的结构, 研究成果以两篇论文形式发表在“科学”杂志上, 填补了NLR介导的免疫信号转导研究领域的空白。该文简要总结了相关研究进展, 讨论了NLR免疫信号转导研究领域尚需解决的问题。

关键词: 植物免疫, NLR, ZAR1, 变构激活, 抗病小体

Abstract: Nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors are a major family of plant resistance (R) proteins, which are also found in animals. NLRs turn on immune signaling by recognizing pathogen-specific effectors in plants. Although the first few plant NLR R genes were cloned more than 25 years ago, the activation mechanism remained elusive. No structure is available for the full-length plant NLRs despite attempts over the last 2 decades. Recently, studies from the Chai, Zhou and Wang labs, published in Science, solved the structure of zygote arrest 1 (ZAR1) before and after effector recognition, which fills a huge gap in NLR biology. This mini review briefly summarized these findings and related progresses, and highlighted further challenges in NLR-mediated immune signaling field.

Key words: plant immunity, NLR, ZAR1, allosteric activation, resistosome