Perception of a conserved family of plant signalling peptides by the receptor kinase HSL3

  1. Jack Rhodes
  2. Andra-Octavia Roman
  3. Marta Bjornson
  4. Benjamin Brandt
  5. Paul Derbyshire
  6. Michele Wyler
  7. Marc W Schmid
  8. Frank LH Menke
  9. Julia Santiago
  10. Cyril Zipfel  Is a corresponding author
  1. The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  2. The Plant Signaling Mechanisms Laboratory, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  3. Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Zurich‐Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  4. MWSchmid GmbH, Switzerland
4 figures, 1 table and 21 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 2 supplements
CTNIPs are a novel family of plant signalling peptide.

(a) Heat map showing log2(FC) expression levels of CTNIP1–4 in response to a range of elicitors (data obtained from Bjornson et al., 2021). CTNIP5 was excluded as it is unannotated in the TAIR10 …

Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Alignment and phylogeny of Arabidopsis CTNIPs.

(a) Expression heat map showing log2(FC) expression levels of CTNIP1, CTNIP2, CTNIP3, and CTNIP5 taken from ArrayExpress which mapped to the Araport11 annotation (Athar et al., 2019; Bjornson et …

Figure 1—figure supplement 1—source data 1

Expression levels of CTNIP1, CTNIP2, CTNIP3, and CTNIP5.

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Figure 1—figure supplement 2
Characterisation of CTNIP synthetic peptides.

(a) Alignment of CTNIP4 peptide sequences used in this manuscript. (b) Western blot using α-p42/p44-ERK recognising phosphorylated MAP kinases in seedlings treated with 100 nM CTNIP4 fragments or …

Figure 2 with 3 supplements
HAESA-LIKE 3 (HSL3) forms a CTNIP-induced receptor complex with BAK1.

(a) Schematic representation of BAK1-GFP immunoprecipitation in the (1) absence or (2) presence of CTNIP4 treatment to identify protein associations induced by CTNIP. Figure generated using …

Figure 2—source data 1

HSL3-specific spectral counts.

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Figure 2—source data 2

Westernblots showing affinity purification of BAK1 with HSL3-GFP.

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Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Phylogeny of Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase (LRR-RK) subfamily XI.

Phylogeny of full-length protein sequences of the Arabidopsis LRR-RK subfamily XI. Sequences were aligned using MUSCLE and a phylogeny was inferred using the maximum-likelihood method and JTT …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1—source data 1

Flg22-induced expression data of LRR-RK subfamily XI.

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Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) independent experiments and purification of HAESA-LIKE 3 (HSL3) and BAK1 used in the binding experiments.

(a) Analytical size exclusion chromatography (SEC) of the ectodomains of HSL3 and BAK1. An SDS-PAGE of the two proteins is shown alongside. (b) ITC raw thermograms of experiments shown in the ITC …

Figure 2—figure supplement 3
Structural comparison of the binding pockets between the receptors HAESA and HAESA-LIKE 3 (HSL3).

(a) The hydroxyproline pocket required for anchoring the INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION (IDA) peptide to the HAESA receptor is missing in HSL3. Close view of the binding pocket of the …

Figure 3 with 5 supplements
HAESA-LIKE 3 (HSL3) is strictly required for CTNIP perception and growth regulation.

(a) Western blot using α-p42/p44-ERK recognising phosphorylated MAP kinases in seedlings treated with 100 nM CTNIPs or mock for 15 min. The membrane was stained with Coomassie brilliant blue (CBB), …

Figure 3—source data 1

HSL3 is strictly required for CTNIP perception and growth regulation.

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Figure 3—source data 2

HSL3-dependency of CTNIP-induced MAPK phosphorylation.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Genetic characterisation of hsl3 mutants.

(a) Gene model showing the location of T-DNA inserts. (b) PCR confirming T-DNA insertion and mutant homozygosity.

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Genetic characterisation of hsl3 mutants.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 2
CTNIP-induced seedling growth inhibition.

(a–b) Fresh weight of 14-day-old seedlings grown in the presence of 500 nM CTNIPs for 10 days relative to mock (n = 8 seedlings). A line represents mean; error bars represent SD. p-Values indicate …

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CTNIP-induced seedling growth inhibition.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 3
Correlation of CTNIP4-induced transcriptomic response with that of elicitors at 30min.

CTINP4-induced gene expression is well correlated with elicitor-induced gene expression from Bjornson et al., 2021. Circle colour and size are proportional to the Spearman correlation coefficient …

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Correlation of CTNIP4-induced transcriptomic response with that of elicitors at 30min.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 4
Characterisation of CTNIP and chimeric receptor lines.

(a) Western blot using α-FLAG recognising BIR3ecto-HSL3cyto-FLAG in seedlings to confirm expression. The membrane was stained with Coomassie brilliant blue (CBB), as a loading control. (b) …

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Characterisation of CTNIP and chimeric receptor lines.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 5
HSL3-CTNIP mutants do not show altered resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000 ΔAvrPto/ΔAvrPtoB.

Four-week-old plants were spray inoculated with P. syringae pv tomato DC3000 ΔAvrPto/ΔAvrPtoB (OD600=0.2). Data points represent individual plants (n=8). Red bars represent medians. Dashed lines …

Figure 3—figure supplement 5—source data 1

HSL3-CTNIP mutants do not show altered resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000 ΔAvrPto/ΔAvrPtoB.

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Figure 4 with 1 supplement
The HSL3-CTNIP signalling module predates extant angiosperms.

(a) Phylogeny of the full-length amino acid sequences of HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade of receptor kinases. Eudicot sequences are indicated in blue, monocot sequences in green, and Amborella

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The HSL3-CTNIP signalling module predates extant angiosperms.

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Figure 4—figure supplement 1
HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade phylogenies.

Phylogenies of HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade LRR domains and kinase domains. Eudicot sequences are indicated in blue, monocot sequences in green, and Amborella sequences in red. Corresponding …

Tables

Key resources table
Reagent type (species) or resourceDesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)HSL3ARAPORT11AT5G25930, Q9XGZ2_ARATH
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)CTNIP1ARAPORT11AT1G06135, Q8LCX3_ARATH
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)CTNIP2ARAPORT11AT1G06137, F4IBZ9_ARATH
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)CTNIP3ARAPORT11AT2G31335, Q1G3B9_ARATH
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)CTNIP4ARAPORT11AT2G31345, Q8L9Z1_ARATH
Gene (Arabidopsis thaliana)CTNIP5ARAPORT11AT2G23123, A0A1I9LM80_ARATH
Gene (Medicago truncatula)MtHSL3Mt4.0G7J3I8_MEDTR, MTR_3g110450, MtrunA17_Chr3g0140551
Gene (Medicago truncatula)MtCTNIPMt4.0G7I613_MEDTR, MTR_1g044470, MtrunA17_Chr1g0168241
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)hsl3-1euNASCsalk_207895
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)hsl3-2euNASCwiscdslox450b04
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)bak1-4/pBAK1::BAK1-GFPhttps://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.111.090779bak1-4/pBAK1::BAK1-GFP
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)bak1-5https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002046bak1-5
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)p35S::AEQUORINhttps://doi.org/10.1038/352524a0
Genetic reagent (Nicotiana benthamiana)p35S::AEQUORINhttps://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.171249
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)35S::HSL3-GFPThis paperFigure 3 and Materials and methods
Genetic reagent (Arabidopsis thaliana)pHSL3::BIR3-HSL3-FLAGThis paperChimera created using the method from
https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00138
Cell line (Trichoplusia ni)Tnao38https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6750-12-12Cell line maintained in J Santiago lab
AntibodyAnti-BAK1 (rabbit polyclonal)https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.111.084301WB (1:2000)
AntibodyAnti-GFP (HRP-conjugated mouse monoclonal)Santa Cruzsc-9996WB (1:5000)
AntibodyAnti-pMAPK (rabbit polyclonal)Cell Signalingp44/42 MAPK (Erk1/2) antibody #9,102WB (1:4000)
Recombinant DNA reagent35S::HSL3-GFP (plasmid)This paperFigure 3
Recombinant DNA reagentpHSL3::BIR3-HSL3-FLAG (plasmid)This paperUsed to generate transgenic plants in Figure 3
Recombinant DNA reagentpHSL3::LTI6B-Citrine (plasmid)This paperUsed to generate transgenic plants in Figure 3—figure supplement 4
Recombinant DNA reagentpHSL3::BIR3F146A,R170A -HSL3-Citrine (plasmid)This paperUsed to generate transgenic plants in Figure 3—figure supplement 4
Recombinant DNA reagentpHSL3::BIR3-HSL3-CITRINE (plasmid)This paperUsed to generate transgenic plants in Figure 3—figure supplement 4
Commercial assay or kitGFP-TrapChromotekCat. #: gta-20
Software, algorithmGraphPadGraphPad software

Additional files

Supplementary file 1

Transcripts predicted to encode proteins <150 amino acids up-regulated following 1 μM flg22 treatment for 90 min (Bjornson et al., 2021).

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Supplementary file 2

Spectral counts of peptides identified through affinity purification of the BAK1 complex.

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Supplementary file 3

Differential gene expression induced by 30 min CTNIP448-70 treatment.

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Supplementary file 4

Gene ontology enrichment following 30 min CTNIP448-70 treatment.

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Supplementary file 5

Primers used in this study.

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Supplementary file 6

Synthetic peptides used in this study.

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Supplementary file 7

Species included in CTNIP and RK search.

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Supplementary file 8

Initial CTNIP candidates used for the search.

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Identified CTNIPs relaxed.

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Identified CTNIPs confident.

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Initial RK candidates used for the search.

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Supplementary file 12

Alignment of RKs identified.

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Supplementary file 13

Receptor phylogeny.

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Supplementary file 14

Full-length alignment of HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade.

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Supplementary file 15

Full-length HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade phylogeny.

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Supplementary file 16

Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain alignment of HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade.

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Supplementary file 17

Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade phylogeny.

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Supplementary file 18

Kinase domain alignment of HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade.

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Supplementary file 19

Kinase domain HAE/HSL/CEPR/RLK7/IKU2 clade phylogeny.

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Supplementary file 20

Full-length HAESA-LIKE 3 (HSL3) alignment.

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