A phosphorelay circuit drives extracellular alkalinization in receptor kinase-mediatedimmune and cell wall damage signaling
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ABSTRACT: Extracellular alkalinization has long been recognized as a hallmark of plant cell-surfacereceptor activation, including during pattern-triggered immunity (PTI); yet themechanisms driving elicitor-induced alkalinization and its role in plant signaling remainunclear. Here, we demonstrate that inhibition of autoinhibited H+-ATPases (AHAs) isrequired for elicitor-induced extracellular alkalinization. This alkalinization is essentialfor immune and cell wall damage signaling mediated by diverse plasma membrane-localised receptor kinases (RKs) likely through modulation of ligand-receptorinteractions. Mechanistically, RKs transduce elicitor-triggered signaling via thereceptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BOTRYTIS-INDUCED KINASE 1 (BIK1), whichinhibits AHA activity by disrupting AHA-GENERAL REGULATORY FACTOR (GRF)interactions through a conserved phosphorylation event. This phosphorylation-drivenextracellular alkalinization module is required for disease resistance and cell walldamage responses initiated by ligand-RK pairs. Our findings uncover a conservedphosphorelay circuit that broadly regulates extracellular alkalinization to coordinate RK signaling, illuminating a general mechanism for RK activation and stress resilience.
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ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis Thaliana (mouse-ear Cress)
TISSUE(S): Plant Cell
SUBMITTER:
FRank Menke
LAB HEAD: Frank Menke
PROVIDER: PXD063345 | Pride | 2026-04-14
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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