Plasma membrane order and fluidity are diversely triggered by elicitors of plant defence.

ABSTRACT: Although plants are exposed to a great number of pathogens, they usually defend themselves by triggering mechanisms able to limit disease development. Alongside signalling events common to most such incompatible interactions, modifications of plasma membrane (PM) physical properties could be new players in the cell transduction cascade. Different pairs of elicitors (cryptogein, oligogalacturonides, and flagellin) and plant cells (tobacco and Arabidopsis) were used to address the issue of possible modifications of plant PM biophysical properties induced by elicitors and their links to other events of the defence signalling cascade. We observed an increase of PM order whatever the elicitor/plant cell pair used, provided that a signalling cascade was induced. Such membrane modification is dep

SUBMITTER: Sandor R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014163 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature