RIN4 & NOI proteins are well-conserved in land plants. We propose that non-orthologous NLRs have independently evolved to guard the NOI protein family. 🌿
NOI protein diversification provides a brilliant convergent mechanism for NLRs to detect diverse pathogen effectors! 🔬 (6/6)
This is a working link to the preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Crucially, this suppression requires direct protein-protein interaction—and bacterial effectors disrupt this very interaction to trigger plant immunity! 💥
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A new preprint is OUT! 🚨
Thrilled to finally share our work on how decoy diversification underpins the regulation of an NLR-mediated autoimmunity.
Check out the full story on @bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Much thanks to my supervisor and collaborators! Thank you for reading the thread :)
