Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

A 1-phytase type III effector interferes with plant hormone signaling

  • Doreen Blüher,
  • Debabrata Laha,
  • Sabine Thieme,
  • Alexandre Hofer,
  • Lennart Eschen-Lippold,
  • Antonia Masch,
  • Gerd Balcke,
  • Igor Pavlovic,
  • Oliver Nagel,
  • Antje Schonsky,
  • Rahel Hinkelmann,
  • Jakob Wörner,
  • Nargis Parvin,
  • Ralf Greiner,
  • Stefan Weber,
  • Alain Tissier,
  • Mike Schutkowski,
  • Justin Lee,
  • Henning Jessen,
  • Gabriel Schaaf,
  • Ulla Bonas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02195-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Plant pathogens translocate type III effector (T3E) proteins that may be recognized by plants to trigger immunity. Here, the authors show that the Xanthomonas T3E XopH possesses a novel 1-phytase activity that is required for XopH-mediated immunity of plants carrying the Bs7 resistance gene.