B08 | Connecting plant sensor NLRs to host cell death responses
Prof. Dr. Jijie Chai
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cologne
Dr. Paul Schulze-Lefert
Department Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Contact: schlefmpipz.mpg.de
For more information visit: Schulze-Lefert Lab
This project was funded within the SFB 1403 from 2020 - 2023
Former Abstract
Nucleotide-binding domain/leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors provide a crucial barrier to pathogen infection in mammals and plants. In both systems, NLRs sense microbe-mediated perturbations inside host cells and, via conformational switches, induce cell death and anti-microbial pathways leading to disease resistance. This project integrates protein structure-function studies with in vivo molecular and pathology phenotyping, genetics and cell biology to answer fundamental questions about how plant sensor NLRs activate cell death pathways and whether different NLR types converge on the same or distinct cell death machineries in immunity.
