Host autophagy machinery is diverted to the pathogen interface to mediate focal defense responses against the Irish potato famine pathogen
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- INGEBI-CONICET, Argentina
Abstract
During plant cell invasion, the oomycete Phytophthora infestans remains enveloped by host-derived membranes whose functional properties are poorly understood. P. infestans secretes a myriad of effector proteins through these interfaces for plant colonization. Recently we showed that the effector protein PexRD54 reprograms host-selective autophagy by antagonising antimicrobial-autophagy receptor Joka2/NBR1 for ATG8CL binding (Dagdas, 2016). Here, we show that during infection, ATG8CL/Joka2 labelled defense-related autophagosomes are diverted toward the perimicrobial host membrane to restrict pathogen growth. PexRD54 also localizes to autophagosomes across the perimicrobial membrane, consistent with the view that the pathogen remodels host-microbe interface by co-opting the host autophagy machinery. Furthermore, we show that the host-pathogen interface is a hotspot for autophagosome biogenesis. Notably, overexpression of the early autophagosome biogenesis protein ATG9 enhances plant immunity. Our results implicate selective autophagy in polarized immune responses of plants and point to more complex functions for autophagy than the widely known degradative roles.
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Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- Yasin F Dagdas
- Khaoula Belhaj
- Sophien Kamoun
- Tolga O Bozkurt
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M002462/1)
- Pooja Pandey
- Yasin Tumtas
- Nattapong Sanguankiattichai
- Cian Duggan
- Alexandre Y Leary
- Maria Segretin
- Mauricio Contreras
- Zachary Savage
- Tolga O Bozkurt
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2018, Dagdas et al.
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Host autophagy machinery is diverted to the pathogen interface to mediate focal defense responses against the Irish potato famine pathogen
eLife 7:e37476.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37476
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