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System of innate immunity in plants

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The review deals with the mechanisms of innate immunity in plants focusing on families of pattern-recognition receptors and incorporates recent data on complete sequencing of several plant genomes. Plant immune response involves several families of receptors, both membrane-bound and cytoplasmic ones, containing conservative leucine-rich repeats. The lack of adaptive immunity and the associated rearrangements in the immune receptor genes in plants is partly counterbalanced by genetically encoded mechanisms of specific immunity to particular pathogens. There is a certain similarity between intracellular signal transduction and effector mechanisms in plant and animal innate immune systems, although the latter are considerably more complex.

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Abbreviations

CC:

coiled coil domain

ETI:

effector-triggered immunity

IL-1:

interleukin-1

LRRs:

leucine-rich repeats

NB-LRRs:

nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeats

MAPKs:

mitogen-activated protein kinases

MAPKKs:

MAPK kinases

PAMPs:

pathogen-associated molecular patterns

PRRs:

pattern-recognition receptors

PTI:

PAMPs-triggered immunity

RLKs:

receptor-like kinases

RLPs:

receptor-like proteins

TIR:

domain homologous to Toll and IL-1 receptor

TLRs:

Toll-like receptors

LPS:

lipopolysaccharide

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Original Russian Text © O.A. Vakhrusheva, S.A. Nedospasov, 2011, published in Molekulyarnaya Biologiya, 2011, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 20–29.

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Vakhrusheva, O.A., Nedospasov, S.A. System of innate immunity in plants. Mol Biol 45, 16–23 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026893311010146

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