Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Oxicam-type non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit NPR1-mediated salicylic acid pathway

  • Nobuaki Ishihama,
  • Seung-won Choi,
  • Yoshiteru Noutoshi,
  • Ivana Saska,
  • Shuta Asai,
  • Kaori Takizawa,
  • Sheng Yang He,
  • Hiroyuki Osada,
  • Ken Shirasu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27489-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The plant defense hormone salicylic acid has structural similarity to oxicam-type non-steroidal antiinflammatories. Here the authors show oxicams, as well as endogenous salicylic acid, can alter cellular redox state and immune signaling without affecting the redox status of cysteines in NPR1.