Lecture 3-4 Identification of Positive Regulators downstream of SA
Positive regulators between SA and resistance/pr Systemic resistance PR gene expression? SA Local infection Necrosis SA What could they be?
Hunt for regulators of SAR Genetic screens for positive regulators downstream of SA How do you find mutants non-responsive to SA?
Hunt for regulators of SAR Case 1: John Ryals Group Host plant: Arabidopsis Ws ecotype Pathogen: oomycete Peronospora parasitica Emwa2, causes downy mildew Treatment: INA or SA spray followed by Emwa2 inoculation 280,000 M2 plants from EMS mutagenesis and 80,000 T4 plants (from T-DNA transformation) identified 75 lines that were defective in SAR. nim1 compromised the most.
WT nim1 H 2 O INA SA
Where to place NIM1?
NIM1 Systemic resistance PR gene expression SA? Local infection Necrosis? SA
SA SA UDP-Glycosyltransferase SAG (SA+SAG) What does the figure tell us about NIM1 function?
Systemic resistance PR gene expression NIM1 SA? Necrosis SA Local infection
What genetic tests need to be done with nim1? - Heritable? - Dominant/recessive? - Single gene? - Allelism test
nim1 x WT Conclusions?
Conclusions?
Conclusions?
Induction of PR-1 mrna by pathogen infection or chemicals Pathogens? SA?? NIM1 nim1-5 PR1 PR1? - Not allelic to nim1-1 - unusual allele of nim1 - Allelic to nim1-1, other mutations affect the phenotype
How would you clone nim1? nim1-1 x Ler F1 F2 Crude mapping fine mapping
Crude mapping Fine mapping Cosmid contig
Which clones contain the NIM1 gene?
Sequenced the overlapping region and a mutation found in nim1-1
Is nim1 cloned? What else should we do? - Sequence other alleles - Single gene complementation - Test T-DNA knockout alleles
nim1-5 - Not allelic to nim1-1 - unusual allele of nim1 - Allelic to nim1-1, other mutations affect the phenotype? Which agrees with the sequencing data?
Systemic resistance PR gene expression NIM1 SA? Necrosis SA Local infection
Hunt for regulators of SAR Forward genetic screens conducted to search for positive regulators downstream of SA Case 2: Xinnian Dong s Group at Duke University Screen for mutants in which PR genes can not be induced by SA How?
BGL2 (PR2) Promoter-GUS reporter BGL2 promoter GUS Pathogen SA or INA GUS: β-glucuronidase
WT SA or INA npr1-1 SA or INA EMS, 13,500 M2 plants screened, 76 putative mutants identified npr: non-expresser of PR genes
What kinds of mutations can abolish PR2 promoter-gus expression? - Genes required for induction of PR2 by SA - GUS reporter gene
How would you confirm your mutants? Systemic resistance PR gene expression SA? Necrosis SA Local infection
npr1-1
NPR1 Systemic resistance PR gene expression SA? Necrosis SA Local infection
Map of the NPR1 Locus on Chromosome I 1 2 3
H 2 O INA SA Clone 1 Clone 2 Clone 3 WT npr1-2
Map of the NPR1 Locus on Chromosome I 1 2 3
Summary of positional cloning Generate a mapping population Pick plants with the mutant phenotype in F2 Crude mapping Generate additional markers Fine mapping of the mutation Generate cosmid contigs Perform complementation analysis Sequence overlapping region to identify the mutation PCR Seq Whole genome Seq
Predict the function of NPR1
Predict the function of NPR1 1. Blast search 2. Identification of protein domains SMART (Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool) http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ 3. Prediction of protein subcellular localization PSORT, WoLF PSORT http://www.genscript.com/psort/wolf_psort.html 4. Analysis of gene expression pattern Arabidopsis efp Browser http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp/cgi-bin/efpweb.cgi Where were the data used to build the efp Browser coming from?
NPR1 is a protein with ankyrin repeats What does it tell us about how NPR1 functions?
NIM1/NPR1 Systemic resistance PR gene expression SA? Necrosis SA Local infection
Forward genetic screens conducted to search for positive regulators downstream of SA Lab Screens Mutants obtained Ryals, Novartis Non-immunity (NIM) nim1-1 to nim1-6 Klessig, Rutgers Dong, Duke Ausubel, Harvard SA insensitive (SAI) No PR-gene expression (NPR) Enhanced disease susceptibility (EDS) sai1-1 and sai1-2 npr1-1 npr1-2 to npr1-4
Why all the SAR screens only yielded mutants carrying mutations in one gene --- NPR1? Why other things such as TF were not found?
NPR1 is a positive regulator of SAR. Can we use NPR1 to regulate the SAR pathway? How would you enhance SAR with NPR1?
Disease symptoms caused by Psm ES4326
Growth of the oomycete pathogen Peronospora parasitica Noco2 on wild type and NPR1 transgenic lines
What can we conclude from the data?
35S-NPR1-H snc1 WT
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