Channeling plant immunity

Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Pingtao Ding, Jonathan D.G. Jones

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Abstract

Plant intracellular NLR proteins detect pathogen effectors and then form multimeric protein complexes (“resistosomes”) that activate immune responses and cell death through unknown mechanisms. In this issue of Cell, Bi et al. show that the ZAR1 resistosome exhibits cation channel activity, enabling calcium influx that activates defense mechanisms and culminates in cell death.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3358-3360
Number of pages3
JournalCell
Volume184
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jun 2021

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