A Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR8 suppresses plant immunity by targeting a desumoylating isopeptidase DeSI2
2023
Jiang, Rui | He, Qin | Song, Jingyi | Liu, Zeng | Yu, Jian | Hu, Kefan | Liu, Huiming | Mu, Yang | Wu, Jiahui | Tian, Zhendong | Song, Botao | Vleeshouwers, Vivianne G.A.A. | Xie, Conghua | Du, Juan
The potato's most devastating disease is late blight, which is caused by Phytophthora infestans. Whereas various resistance (R) genes are known, most are typically defeated by this fast-evolving oomycete pathogen. However, the broad-spectrum and durable R8 is a vital gene resource for potato resistance breeding. To support an educated deployment of R8, we embarked on a study on the corresponding avirulence gene Avr8. We overexpressed Avr8 by transient and stable transformation, and found that Avr8 promotes colonization of P. infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana and potato, respectively. A yeast-two-hybrid (Y2H) screen showed that AVR8 interacts with a desumoylating isopeptidase (StDeSI2) of potato. We overexpressed DeSI2 and found that DeSI2 positively regulates resistance to P. infestans, while silencing StDeSI2 downregulated the expression of a set of defense-related genes. By using a specific proteasome inhibitor, we found that AVR8 destabilized StDeSI2 through the 26S proteasome and attenuated early PTI responses. Altogether, these results indicate that AVR8 manipulates desumoylation, which is a new strategy that adds to the plethora of mechanisms that Phytophthora exploits to modulate host immunity, and StDeSI2 provides a new target for durable resistance breeding against P. infestans in potato.
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