Absence of endo-1,4-β-glucanase KOR1 alters the jasmonate-dependent defence response to Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis.
During plant-pathogen interactions, the plant cell wall forms part of active defence against invaders. In recent years, cell wall-editing enzymes, associated with growth and development, have been related to plant susceptibility or resistance. Our previous work identified a role for several tomato and Arabidopsis endo-1,4-β-glucanases (EGs) in plant-pathogen interactions. Here we studied the response of the Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA insertion mutant lacking EG Korrigan1 (KOR1) infected with Pseudomonas syringae. KOR1 is predicted to be an EG which is thought to participate in cellulose biosynthesis. We found that kor1-1 plants were more susceptible to P. syringae, and displayed severe disease symptoms and enhanced bacterial growth if compared to Wassilewskija (Ws) wild-type plants. Hormonal and gene expression analyses revealed that the jasmonic acid (JA) pathway was activated more in kor1-1 plants with an increase in the JA-biosynthesis gene LOX3 and a greater accumulation of JA. Upon infection the accumulation of JA and JA-isoleucine (JA-Ile) was higher than in wild-type plants and increased the induction of LOX3 and the JA-responsive PDF1.2 gene. In addition, the increase of salicylic acid (SA) in healthy and infected kor1-1 may reflect the complex interaction between JA and SA, which results in the more susceptible phenotype displayed by the infected mutant plants. Callose deposition was enhanced in infected kor1-1 and an increase in pathogen-induced hydrogen peroxide took place. The susceptible phenotype displayed by KOR1-deficient plants was coronatine-independent. No significant changes were detected in the hormonal profile of the kor1-1 plants infected by coronatine-deficient P. syringae cmaA, which supports that absence of EG KOR1 alters per se the plant response to infection. We previously reported increased resistance of kor1-1 to B. cinerea, hence, the lack of this EG alters cell wall properties and plant responses in such a way that benefits P. syringae colonisation but restricts B. cinerea invasion.
['López-Cruz|Jaime|J|', 'Finiti|Ivan|I|', 'Fernández-Crespo|Emma|E|', 'Crespo-Salvador|Oscar|O|', 'García-Agustín|Pilar|P|', 'González-Bosch|Carmen|C|']
D017360:Arabidopsis D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins D002473:Cell Wall D002480:Cellulase D003517:Cyclopentanes D004269:DNA, Bacterial D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant D008084:Lipoxygenase D008565:Membrane Proteins D054883:Oxylipins D010935:Plant Diseases D044224:Pseudomonas syringae D020156:Salicylic Acid
Pseudomonas syringae Arabidopsis Cell wall Plant response Endo-glucanases