August
2011
, Volume
24
, Number
8
Pages
918
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931
Authors
Sarah M. Collier,1,2
Louis-Philippe Hamel,3 and
Peter Moffett1,3
Affiliations
1Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 U.S.A.; 2Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 U.S.A.; 3Centre de Recherche en Amélioration Végétale, Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1 Canada
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Accepted 11 April 2011.
Abstract
Plant genomes encode large numbers of nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) proteins, many of which are active in pathogen detection and defense response induction. NB-LRR proteins fall into two broad classes: those with a Toll and interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain at their N-terminus and those with a coiled-coil (CC) domain at the N-terminus. Within CC-NB-LRR-encoding genes, one basal clade is distinguished by having CC domains resembling the Arabidopsis thaliana RPW8 protein, which we refer to as CCR domains. Here, we show that CCR-NB-LRR-encoding genes are present in the genomes of all higher plants surveyed, and that they comprise two distinct subgroups: one typified by the Nicotiana benthamiana N-required gene 1 (NRG1) protein and the other typified by the Arabidopsis activated disease resistance gene 1 (ADR1) protein. We further report that, in contrast to CC-NB-LRR proteins, the CCR domains of both NRG1- and ADR1-like proteins are sufficient for the induction of defense responses, and that this activity appears to be SGT1-independent. Additionally, we report the apparent absence of both NRG1 homologs and TIR-NB-LRR-encoding genes from the dicot Aquilegia coerulea and the dicotyledonous order Lamiales as well as from monocotyledonous species. This strong correlation in occurrence is suggestive of a functional relationship between these two classes of NB-LRR proteins.
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