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An incoherent feed-forward loop mediates robustness and tunability in a plant immune network.


ABSTRACT: Immune signaling networks must be tunable to alleviate fitness costs associated with immunity and, at the same time, robust against pathogen interferences. How these properties mechanistically emerge in plant immune signaling networks is poorly understood. Here, we discovered a molecular mechanism by which the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana achieves robust and tunable immunity triggered by the microbe-associated molecular pattern, flg22. Salicylic acid (SA) is a major plant immune signal molecule. Another signal molecule jasmonate (JA) induced expression of a gene essential for SA accumulation, EDS5 Paradoxically, JA inhibited expression of PAD4, a positive regulator of EDS5 expression. This incoherent type-4 feed-forward loop (I4-FFL) enabled JA to mitigate SA accumulation in the intact network but to support it under perturbation of PAD4, thereby minimizing the negative impact of SA on fitness as well as conferring robust SA-mediated immunity. We also present evidence for evolutionary conservation of these gene regulations in the family Brassicaceae Our results highlight an I4-FFL that simultaneously provides the immune network with robustness and tunability in A. thaliana and possibly in its relatives.

SUBMITTER: Mine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5331241 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An incoherent feed-forward loop mediates robustness and tunability in a plant immune network.

Mine Akira A   Nobori Tatsuya T   Salazar-Rondon Maria C MC   Winkelmüller Thomas M TM   Anver Shajahan S   Becker Dieter D   Tsuda Kenichi K  

EMBO reports 20170109 3


Immune signaling networks must be tunable to alleviate fitness costs associated with immunity and, at the same time, robust against pathogen interferences. How these properties mechanistically emerge in plant immune signaling networks is poorly understood. Here, we discovered a molecular mechanism by which the model plant species <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> achieves robust and tunable immunity triggered by the microbe-associated molecular pattern, flg22. Salicylic acid (SA) is a major plant immu  ...[more]

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