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ArticleNature plants2025

Vacuolar sorting receptors coordinate lytic vacuolar and autophagic transport for plant effector-triggered immunity.

Dongmei Zhu, Shuai Hu, Wenhan Cao, Yanli Gao, Yan Li, Juan Xu, Baiying Li, Liwen Jiang, Enrique Rojo, Jinbo Shen

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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 9 papers.

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Dongmei Zhu *National Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.
Shuai Hu *National Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9737-2091
Wenhan CaoNational Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9547-9282
Yanli GaoNational Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.
Yan LiNational Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.
Juan XuState Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6683-6415
Baiying LiDepartment of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Liwen JiangCentre for Cell and Developmental Biology and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7829-1472
Enrique RojoCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Jinbo ShenNational Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China. jshen@zafu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-0412-5586

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vacuolar sorting receptors (VSRs) are involved in sorting soluble vacuolar proteins during normal plant growth and development, but their role in plant stress responses remains largely unexplored. Here we report that a subgroup of the Arabidopsis thaliana VSR genes are transcriptionally induced during infection with avirulent Pseudomonas syringae strains, leading to higher VSR protein accumulation. We demonstrate that the pathogen-responsive VSR1, VSR5, VSR6 and VSR7 genes function redundantly in sorting vacuolar death-related enzymes induced during bacterial infection. Moreover, VSRs are required for fusion of the tonoplast with the plasma membrane and the subsequent release of vacuolar contents into the apoplast, where bacterial pathogens reside. Indeed, dysfunction of this subgroup of VSRs blocks hypersensitive cell death and leads to stronger disease symptoms and higher bacterial loads, revealing their essential role in defence against avirulent bacterial infection. Intriguingly, their disruption also leads to defects in autophagy, impairing autophagosome-mediated degradation of bacterial effector proteins. Collectively, our results show that VSR1, VSR5, VSR6 and VSR7 are key regulators of plant effector-triggered immunity (ETI) by orchestrating receptor-mediated vacuolar sorting of immunity-related proteins, tonoplast to plasma membrane fusion, and autophagic degradation of effector proteins.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsAutophagyPlant DiseasesPlant ImmunityPseudomonas syringaeVacuolesProtein TransportArabidopsis Proteins

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