The Myristylation Motif of Pto Is Not Required for Disease Resistance
1998
Ying-Tsu Loh | Jianmin Zhou | Gregory B. Martin
The tomato Pto kinase confers resistance to bacterial speck disease caused by strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that express the avirulence gene avrPto. Pto contains a putative myristylation site at its amino terminus that was hypothesized to play a role in localizing Pto in the plant cell. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to change the invariant glycine residue in the myristylation motif to an alanine. Transgenes encoding the mutant Pto(G2A) and wild-type Pto were placed behind the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter and transformed into tomato plants that are susceptible to bacterial speck disease. Both the mutant and wild-type forms of Pto conferred resistance to a strain of P. syringae pv. tomato expressing avrPto. These results indicate that the myristylation motif of Pto is not required for bacterial speck disease resistance.
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