Fungal Sex Receptors Recalibrated to Detect Host Plants

Yasin F Dagdas; Tolga O Bozkurt

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2015.11.012

Fungal Sex Receptors Recalibrated to Detect Host Plants

Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Dec 9;18(6):637-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.11.012.

Authors

Yasin F Dagdas¹, Tolga O Bozkurt²

Affiliations

¹ The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7RG, UK.
² Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Electronic address: o.bozkurt@imperial.ac.uk.

PMID: 26651936
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.11.012

Abstract

Secreted peroxidases are well-known components of damage-induced defense responses in plants. A recent study in Nature (Turrà et al., 2015) has revealed that these enzymes can inadvertently serve as reporters of wounded sites and constitute an "Achilles heel," allowing adapted pathogens to track and enter host tissue.

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MeSH terms

Fusarium / metabolism*
Host-Pathogen Interactions*
Peroxidases / metabolism*
Receptors, Mating Factor / metabolism*
Solanum lycopersicum / metabolism*
Solanum lycopersicum / microbiology*
Tropism / physiology*

Substances

Receptors, Mating Factor
Peroxidases