Warren R F, Henk A, Mowery P, Holub E, Innes R W
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
Plant Cell. 1998 Sep;10(9):1439-52. doi: 10.1105/tpc.10.9.1439.
Recognition of pathogens by plants is mediated by several distinct families of functionally variable but structurally related disease resistance (R) genes. The largest family is defined by the presence of a putative nucleotide binding domain and 12 to 21 leucine-rich repeats (LRRs). The function of these LRRs has not been defined, but they are speculated to bind pathogen-derived ligands. We have isolated a mutation in the Arabidopsis RPS5 gene that indicates that the LRR region may interact with other plant proteins. The rps5-1 mutation causes a glutamate-to-lysine substitution in the third LRR and partially compromises the function of several R genes that confer bacterial and downy mildew resistance. The third LRR is relatively well conserved, and we speculate that it may interact with a signal transduction component shared by multiple R gene pathways.
植物对病原体的识别是由几个不同的基因家族介导的,这些基因家族功能各异但结构相关,被称为抗病(R)基因。最大的家族的特征是存在一个假定的核苷酸结合结构域和12到21个富含亮氨酸的重复序列(LRR)。这些LRR的功能尚未明确,但推测它们能结合病原体衍生的配体。我们在拟南芥RPS5基因中分离出一个突变,这表明LRR区域可能与其他植物蛋白相互作用。rps5-1突变导致第三个LRR中的谷氨酸被赖氨酸取代,部分损害了几个赋予细菌和霜霉病抗性的R基因的功能。第三个LRR相对保守,我们推测它可能与多个R基因途径共享的信号转导成分相互作用。