Concerted expansion and contraction of immune receptor gene repertoires in plant genomes

Bruno Pok Man Ngou; Robert Heal; Michele Wyler; Marc W. Schmid; Jonathan D. G. Jones

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Concerted expansion and contraction of immune receptor gene repertoires in plant genomes

Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Robert Heal, Michele Wyler, Marc W. Schmid, Jonathan D. G. Jones

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Recent reports suggest that cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors function synergistically to activate robust defence against pathogens, but whether they co-evolve is unclear. Here we determined the numbers of cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors in 350 species. Surprisingly, the number of receptor genes that are predicted to encode cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors is strongly correlated. We suggest this is consistent with mutual potentiation of immunity initiated by cell-surface and intracellular receptors being reflected in the concerted co-evolution of the size of their repertoires across plant species.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1146-1152
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Plants
Volume	8
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01260-5
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2022

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