Evolutionary gain and loss of a plant pattern-recognition receptor for HAMP recognition
- University of Washington, United States
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States
- Utah Valley University, United States
Abstract
As a first step in innate immunity, pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) recognize distinct pathogen and herbivore-associated molecular patterns and mediate activation of immune responses, but specific steps in the evolution of new PRR sensing functions are not well understood. We employed comparative genomic and functional analyses to define evolutionary events leading to the sensing of the herbivore-associated peptide inceptin (In11) by the PRR Inceptin Receptor (INR) in legume plant species. Existing and de novo genome assemblies revealed that the presence of a functional INR gene corresponded with ability to respond to In11 across ~53 million years (my) of evolution. In11 recognition is unique to the clade of Phaseoloid legumes, and only a single clade of INR homologues from Phaseoloids was functional in a heterologous model. The syntenic loci of several non-Phaseoloid outgroup species nonetheless contain non-functional INR-like homologues, suggesting that an ancestral gene insertion event and diversification preceded the evolution of a specific INR receptor function ~28 mya. Chimeric and ancestrally reconstructed receptors indicated that 16 amino acid differences in the C1 leucine-rich repeat domain and C2 intervening motif mediate gain of In11 recognition. Thus, high PRR diversity was likely followed by a small number of mutations to expand innate immune recognition to a novel peptide elicitor. Analysis of INR evolution provides a model for functional diversification of other germline-encoded PRRs.
Data availability
Sequencing data and genome assemblies have been deposited on NCBI under the following bioprojects: PRJNA817236, PRJNA817235, PRJNA817241, PRJNA817237 and PRJNA817234.Figure 1 - Suppl. data 2 contains the numerical data used to generate this figure.
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Hylodesmum podocarpum, de novogenome assemblyNCBI BioProject, PRJNA817236.
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Canavalia ensiformis, genome assemblyNCBI BioProject, PRJNA817235.
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Macroptilium lathyroides Raw sequence readsNCBI BioProject, PRJNA817241.
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Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, de novo genome assemblyNCBI BioProject, PRJNA817237.
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Pachyrhizus erosus, de novo genome assemblyNCBI BioProject, PRJNA817234.
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Anthony G K Garcia
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Belgian American Educational Foundation (/)
- Simon Snoeck
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© 2022, Snoeck et al.
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Evolutionary gain and loss of a plant pattern-recognition receptor for HAMP recognition
eLife 11:e81050.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81050
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