Nature Communications (May 2022)

Cooperative regulation of PBI1 and MAPKs controls WRKY45 transcription factor in rice immunity

  • Kota Ichimaru,
  • Koji Yamaguchi,
  • Kenichi Harada,
  • Yusaku Nishio,
  • Momoka Hori,
  • Kazuya Ishikawa,
  • Haruhiko Inoue,
  • Shusuke Shigeta,
  • Kento Inoue,
  • Keita Shimada,
  • Satomi Yoshimura,
  • Takumi Takeda,
  • Eiki Yamashita,
  • Toshimichi Fujiwara,
  • Atsushi Nakagawa,
  • Chojiro Kojima,
  • Tsutomu Kawasaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30131-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The U-box type ubiquitin ligase PUB44 positively regulates pattern-triggered immunity in rice. Here the authors identify a PUB44 substrate whose degradation is required for activation of the WRKY45 transcription factor upon immune elicitation.