Project description:Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors perceive pathogen effectors and trigger plant immunity. However, the mechanisms underlying NLR-triggered defense responses remain obscure. The recently discovered Pigm locus in rice encodes a cluster of NLRs, including PigmR, which confers broad-spectrum resistance to blast fungus. Here, we identify PIBP1 (PigmR-INTERACTING and BLAST RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1), an RRM (RNA-recognition motif) protein that specifically interacts with PigmR and other similar NLRs to trigger blast resistance. PigmR-promoted nuclear accumulation of PIBP1 ensures full blast resistance. We find that PIBP1 and a homolog, Os06 g02240, bind DNA and function as unconventional transcription factors at the promoters of the defense genes OsWAK14 and OsPAL1, activating their expression. Knockout of PIBP1 and Os06g02240 greatly attenuated blast resistance. Collectively, our study discovers previously unappreciated RRM transcription factors that directly interact with NLRs to activate plant defense, establishing a direct link between transcriptional activation of immune responses with NLR-mediated pathogen perception
Project description:Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors perceive pathogen effectors and trigger plant immunity. However, the mechanisms underlying NLR-triggered defense responses remain obscure. The recently discovered Pigm locus in rice encodes a cluster of NLRs, including PigmR, which confers broad-spectrum resistance to blast fungus. Here, we identify PIBP1 (PigmR-INTERACTING and BLAST RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1), an RRM (RNA-recognition motif) protein that specifically interacts with PigmR and other similar NLRs to trigger blast resistance. PigmR-promoted nuclear accumulation of PIBP1 ensures full blast resistance. We find that PIBP1 and a homolog, Os06 g02240, bind DNA and function as unconventional transcription factors at the promoters of the defense genes OsWAK14 and OsPAL1, activating their expression. Knockout of PIBP1 and Os06g02240 greatly attenuated blast resistance. Collectively, our study discovers previously unappreciated RRM transcription factors that directly interact with NLRs to activate plant defense, establishing a direct link between transcriptional activation of immune responses with NLR-mediated pathogen perception
Project description:Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors perceive pathogen effectors and trigger plant immunity. However, the mechanisms underlying NLR-triggered defense responses remain obscure. The recently discovered Pigm locus in rice encodes a cluster of NLRs, including PigmR, which confers broad-spectrum resistance to blast fungus. Here, we identify PIBP1 (PigmR-INTERACTING and BLAST RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1), an RRM (RNA-recognition motif) protein that specifically interacts with PigmR and other similar NLRs to trigger blast resistance. PigmR-promoted nuclear accumulation of PIBP1 ensures full blast resistance. We find that PIBP1 and a homolog, Os06 g02240, bind DNA and function as unconventional transcription factors at the promoters of the defense genes OsWAK14 and OsPAL1, activating their expression. Knockout of PIBP1 and Os06 g02240 greatly attenuated blast resistance. Collectively, our study discovers previously unappreciated RRM transcription factors that directly interact with NLRs to activate plant defense, establishing a direct link between transcriptional activation of immune responses with NLR-mediated pathogen perception.
Project description:rs10-01_rrm - quadruple rrm experience - What is the role of the RRM protein family in plants? Plants were grown on soil in controlled environment under LD (16 h light/8 h dark) and the rosette leaves (8-leaf stage seedlings) were collected for RNA preparation. Keywords: normal vs transgenic comparison 2 dye-swap - CATMA arrays
Project description:rs10-01_rrm - quadruple rrm experience - What is the role of the RRM protein family in plants? Plants were grown on soil in controlled environment under LD (16 h light/8 h dark) and the rosette leaves (8-leaf stage seedlings) were collected for RNA preparation. Keywords: normal vs transgenic comparison
Project description:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are central players in determining the life cycle of RNA molecules. These proteins are often modular in arrangement, featuring multiple RNA-binding domains, to enhance RNA recognition and functionality. How these multiple RNA-binding domains within individual RBPs work in concert to recognize mRNA targets is still poorly studied. In the model fungus Ustilago maydis, the multi-RRM domain protein Rrm4 plays a key role in mediating the long-distance mRNA transport on the cytoplasmic surface of early endosomes, thereby precisely regulating spatiotemporal gene expression. Rrm4 contains three RNA-recognition motifs (RRMs), organized in an ELAV-like pattern: a tandem RRM domain (RRM1,2) and a separate third RRM domain (RRM3). Utilizing Rrm4 variants with mutations in the RRM domains, we conducted a differential iCLIP analysis to dissect the RNA recognition code of individual RRM domains. Our study reveals that Rrm4 exhibits two binding mode: (i) a one-to-one interaction where the third RRM domain alone binds RNAs by recognizing the shot UAUG motif. (ii) an intricate composite binding mode where all three RRM domains cooperatively bind RNA. Improtantly, our finding demonstrates that it is not the simple one-to-one interaction but rather the complex cooperative binding mode, involving all three RRM domains, is critical for Rrm4 function in maintaining the unipolar growth of the fungal hyphae.