RaxM regulates the AvrXa21 (RaxX)-mediated immune response

Molecular Plant Pathology
Chunli XuJun Tao

Abstract

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is the causal agent of rice bacterial blight disease, which causes a reduction in rice production. The interaction between Xoo and rice is a model for the study of the gene-for-gene hypothesis, in which a resistance (R) gene encoding a product interacts with an effector molecule encoded by a corresponding bacterial avirulence (avr) gene. Rice XA21 functions as a plant innate immune receptor (R protein) and recognizes the avirulence protein (RaxX) of Xoo to induce the immune response and cope with pathogen attack. The sulphuration of RaxX by the tyrosine sulphotransferase RaxST is essential to its activity. The expression of raxST is regulated by the RaxH/RaxR and phoP/phoQ two-component systems. However, the regulation of raxX expression remains unclear. Here, we showed that a gene (raxM) encodes a small protein, which functions as a regulator of raxX expression. raxX and raxM are located upstream of raxST. Transcriptional analysis indicates that raxX and raxM are separately transcribed and the promoter of raxX is located at the raxM coding region. The RaxM protein regulates its own and raxX expression, and is required for the XA21-mediated immunity response. Therefore, we identified a regula...Continue Reading

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