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Subtilase SBT5.2 inactivates flagellin immunogenicity in the plant apoplast

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Most angiosperm plants recognise the flg22 epitope in bacterial flagellin via homologs of cell surface receptor FLS2 and mount pattern-triggered immune responses. However, flg22 is buried within the flagellin protein indicating that proteases might be required for flg22 release. Here, we demonstrate the extracellular subtilase SBT5.2 not only releases flg22, but also inactivates the immunogenicity of flagellin and flg22 by cleaving within the flg22 epitope, consistent with previous reports that flg22 is unstable in the apoplast. The prolonged lifetime of flg22 in sbt5.2 mutant plants results in increased bacterial immunity in priming assays, indicating that SBT5.2 counterbalances flagellin immunogenicity to provide spatial-temporal control and restrict costly immune responses and that bacteria take advantage of the host proteolytic machinery to avoid detection by flagellin having a protease-sensitive flg22 epitope.

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Metadata

Authors
Buscaill, P., Sanguankiattichai, N., Kaschani, F., Huang, J., Mooney, B. C., Li, Y., Lyu, J., Sueldo, D., Kaiser, M., & van der Hoorn, R. A. L.
Affiliations
  • University of Bristol (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Corresponding author
van der Hoorn, Renier A. L.
Venue
Nature Communications
Publisher
openRxiv
Published
2024-05-24
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
10431-10431
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4404873322
Cited by
24
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 1
FWCI
5.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070289)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/015128/1, DDT00230, BB/R017913/1, 101019324, BB/R017913/3)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
Keywords
flagellin, FLS2, pattern-triggered immunity, proteolytic processing, immune evasion, bacterial flagellin, host proteases
MeSH terms
Epitopes, Flagellin, Mutation, Protein Kinases, Subtilisins, Arabidopsis, Arabidopsis Proteins, Plant Immunity

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