Perception of Pathogenic or Beneficial Bacteria and Their Evasion of Host Immunity: Pattern Recognition Receptors in the Frontline

Overview

Journal Front Plant Sci

Date 2015 Apr 24

PMID 25904927

Citations 40

Authors

Lucie Trda

Freddy Boutrot

Justine Claverie

Daphnee Brule

Stephan Dorey

Benoit Poinssot

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Plants are continuously monitoring the presence of microorganisms to establish an adapted response. Plants commonly use pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to perceive microbe- or pathogen-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs/PAMPs) which are microorganism molecular signatures. Located at the plant plasma membrane, the PRRs are generally receptor-like kinases (RLKs) or receptor-like proteins (RLPs). MAMP detection will lead to the establishment of a plant defense program called MAMP-triggered immunity (MTI). In this review, we overview the RLKs and RLPs that assure early recognition and control of pathogenic or beneficial bacteria. We also highlight the crucial function of PRRs during plant-microbe interactions, with a special emphasis on the receptors of the bacterial flagellin and peptidoglycan. In addition, we discuss the multiple strategies used by bacteria to evade PRR-mediated recognition.

Citing Articles

The hidden language of plant-beneficial microbes: chemo-signaling dynamics in plant microenvironments.

Bisht N, Singh T, Ansari M, Chauhan P World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2025; 41(2):35.

PMID: 39800824 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-025-04253-6.

The Sweet Cherry Tree Genotype Restricts the Aggressiveness of the Wood Decay Fungi and .

Osorio-Navarro C, Saez C, Duran F, Rubilar M, Reyes-Bravo P, Azocar M Microorganisms. 2025; 12(12.

PMID: 39770659 PMC: 11678750. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12122456.

Ferroptosis induction in host rice by endophyte OsiSh-2 is necessary for mutualism and disease resistance in symbiosis.

Xiong X, Zeng J, Ning Q, Liu H, Bu Z, Zhang X Nat Commun. 2024; 15(1):5012.

PMID: 38866764 PMC: 11169551. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49099-y.

Shedding light on bacteria-host interactions with the aid of TnSeq approaches.

Torres M, Paszti S, Eberl L mBio. 2024; 15(6):e0039024.

PMID: 38722161 PMC: 11237515. DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00390-24.

Comparative analysis of infected cassava root transcriptomics reveals candidate genes for root rot disease resistance.

Hohenfeld C, Oliveira S, Ferreira C, Mello V, Margarido G, Passos A Sci Rep. 2024; 14(1):10587.

PMID: 38719851 PMC: 11078935. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60847-4.

References

Arora S, Neely A, Blair B, Lory S, Ramphal R . Role of motility and flagellin glycosylation in the pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa burn wound infections. Infect Immun. 2005; 73(7):4395-8. PMC: 1168557. DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.7.4395-4398.2005. View

Ranf S, Gisch N, Schaffer M, Illig T, Westphal L, Knirel Y . A lectin S-domain receptor kinase mediates lipopolysaccharide sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat Immunol. 2015; 16(4):426-33. DOI: 10.1038/ni.3124. View

Bohm H, Albert I, Fan L, Reinhard A, Nurnberger T . Immune receptor complexes at the plant cell surface. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2014; 20:47-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.04.007. View

Wiesel L, Newton A, Elliott I, Booty D, Gilroy E, Birch P . Molecular effects of resistance elicitors from biological origin and their potential for crop protection. Front Plant Sci. 2014; 5:655. PMC: 4240061. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00655. View

Lacombe S, Rougon-Cardoso A, Sherwood E, Peeters N, Dahlbeck D, van Esse H . Interfamily transfer of a plant pattern-recognition receptor confers broad-spectrum bacterial resistance. Nat Biotechnol. 2010; 28(4):365-9. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1613. View

Robatzek S, Bittel P, Chinchilla D, Kochner P, Felix G, Shiu S . Molecular identification and characterization of the tomato flagellin receptor LeFLS2, an orthologue of Arabidopsis FLS2 exhibiting characteristically different perception specificities. Plant Mol Biol. 2007; 64(5):539-47. DOI: 10.1007/s11103-007-9173-8. View

Chen C, Panzeri D, Yeh Y, Kadota Y, Huang P, Tao C . The Arabidopsis malectin-like leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase IOS1 associates with the pattern recognition receptors FLS2 and EFR and is critical for priming of pattern-triggered immunity. Plant Cell. 2014; 26(7):3201-19. PMC: 4145141. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.125682. View

Trda L, Fernandez O, Boutrot F, Heloir M, Kelloniemi J, Daire X . The grapevine flagellin receptor VvFLS2 differentially recognizes flagellin-derived epitopes from the endophytic growth-promoting bacterium Burkholderia phytofirmans and plant pathogenic bacteria. New Phytol. 2014; 201(4):1371-1384. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12592. View

Pfund C, Tans-Kersten J, Dunning F, Alonso J, Ecker J, Allen C . Flagellin is not a major defense elicitor in Ralstonia solanacearum cells or extracts applied to Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2004; 17(6):696-706. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.6.696. View

10.

Acharya B, Raina S, Maqbool S, Jagadeeswaran G, Mosher S, Appel H . Overexpression of CRK13, an Arabidopsis cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase, results in enhanced resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant J. 2007; 50(3):488-99. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03064.x. View

11.

Hwang I, Hwang B . The pepper mannose-binding lectin gene CaMBL1 is required to regulate cell death and defense responses to microbial pathogens. Plant Physiol. 2011; 155(1):447-63. PMC: 3075774. DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.164848. View

12.

Arrighi J, Barre A, Ben Amor B, Bersoult A, Soriano L, Mirabella R . The Medicago truncatula lysin [corrected] motif-receptor-like kinase gene family includes NFP and new nodule-expressed genes. Plant Physiol. 2006; 142(1):265-79. PMC: 1557615. DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.084657. View

13.

Planchamp C, Glauser G, Mauch-Mani B . Root inoculation with Pseudomonas putida KT2440 induces transcriptional and metabolic changes and systemic resistance in maize plants. Front Plant Sci. 2015; 5:719. PMC: 4292437. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00719. View

14.

Ederli L, Madeo L, Calderini O, Gehring C, Moretti C, Buonaurio R . The Arabidopsis thaliana cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase CRK20 modulates host responses to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 infection. J Plant Physiol. 2011; 168(15):1784-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.05.018. View

15.

Lakshmanan V, Castaneda R, Rudrappa T, Bais H . Root transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to beneficial Bacillus subtilis FB17 rhizobacteria revealed genes for bacterial recruitment and plant defense independent of malate efflux. Planta. 2013; 238(4):657-68. DOI: 10.1007/s00425-013-1920-2. View

16.

Cui H, Tsuda K, Parker J . Effector-triggered immunity: from pathogen perception to robust defense. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 2014; 66:487-511. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-040012. View

17.

Beck M, Wyrsch I, Strutt J, Wimalasekera R, Webb A, Boller T . Expression patterns of flagellin sensing 2 map to bacterial entry sites in plant shoots and roots. J Exp Bot. 2014; 65(22):6487-98. PMC: 4246182. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru366. View

18.

Achouak W, Conrod S, Cohen V, Heulin T . Phenotypic variation of Pseudomonas brassicacearum as a plant root-colonization strategy. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2004; 17(8):872-9. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.8.872. View

19.

Halter T, Imkampe J, Mazzotta S, Wierzba M, Postel S, Bucherl C . The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase BIR2 is a negative regulator of BAK1 in plant immunity. Curr Biol. 2014; 24(2):134-143. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.047. View

20.

Liehl P, Blight M, Vodovar N, Boccard F, Lemaitre B . Prevalence of local immune response against oral infection in a Drosophila/Pseudomonas infection model. PLoS Pathog. 2006; 2(6):e56. PMC: 1475658. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020056. View