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ArticleNature plants2025

Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering.

Tianrun Li, Esteban Jarquin Bolaños, Danielle M Stevens, Hanxu Sha, Daniil M Prigozhin, Gitta Coaker

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Article in Nature plants, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Structure-informed engineering of plant-microbe interactions.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  9. StablePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  10. The transformative power of structural predictions with AI in plant science.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  11. Plant cell surface receptors.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  20. mamp-ml: A deep learning approach to epitope immunogenicity in plants.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Tianrun LiDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8589-4634
Esteban Jarquin BolañosDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Danielle M StevensDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Hanxu ShaDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Daniil M PrigozhinMolecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2075-0231
Gitta CoakerDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA. glcoaker@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0899-2449

Funding

Immune Perception of Bacterial Pathogens in PlantsR35GM136402 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Gitta Laurel Coaker · 2020 to 2026
$3.0M
China Scholarship Council (CSC) 201906300032NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136402United States Department of Agriculture | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) 2021-67034-35049U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM136402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The surface-localized receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope from bacterial flagella. FLS2 is conserved across land plants, but bacterial pathogens exhibit polymorphic flg22 epitopes. Most FLS2 homologues possess narrow perception ranges, but four with expanded perception have been identified. Using diversity analyses, AlphaFold modelling and amino acid properties, key residues enabling expanded recognition were mapped to FLS2's concave surface, interacting with the co-receptor and polymorphic flg22 residues. Synthetic biology enabled engineering of expanded recognition from QvFLS2 (Quercus variabilis) into a homologue with canonical perception. A similar approach enabled transfer of Agrobacterium perception from FLS2

Indexed as

FlagellinPlant ProteinsProtein KinasesAgrobacteriumArabidopsis ProteinsProtein EngineeringArabidopsis ProteinsFlagellinFLS2 protein, ArabidopsisPlant ProteinsProtein Kinases

Identifiers

PMID40721669
PMCPMC12364713

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