Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

The receptor-like kinase NIK1 targets FLS2/BAK1 immune complex and inversely modulates antiviral and antibacterial immunity

  • Bo Li,
  • Marco Aurélio Ferreira,
  • Mengling Huang,
  • Luiz Fernando Camargos,
  • Xiao Yu,
  • Ruan M. Teixeira,
  • Paola A. Carpinetti,
  • Giselle C. Mendes,
  • Bianca C. Gouveia-Mageste,
  • Chenglong Liu,
  • Claudia S. L. Pontes,
  • Otávio J. B. Brustolini,
  • Laura G. C. Martins,
  • Bruno P. Melo,
  • Christiane E. M. Duarte,
  • Libo Shan,
  • Ping He,
  • Elizabeth P. B. Fontes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12847-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Plants deploy numerous receptor-like kinases (RLKs) to respond to pathogens. Here the authors show that NIK1, an RLK that positively regulates antiviral immunity, negatively regulates the response to bacteria by modulating FLS2/BAK1 complex formation, suggesting crosstalk between bacterial and viral immunity.