title: Lipopolysaccharides and plant innate immunity.
abstract: Plants posses an innate immune system that has many parallels with those found in mammals and insects. A range of molecules of microbial origin called Microbe Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs) act to trigger basal defense responses in plants. These elicitors include lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from diverse Gram-negative bacteria. Both core oligosaccharide and the lipid A moieties of LPS as well as synthetic O-antigen oligosaccharides have activity in inducing defense responses in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Very little is known of the mechanism of LPS perception by plants, although plant receptors for other MAMPs such as flagellin have been described. Recent work has implicated the Arabidopsis syntaxin PEN1 as a potential actor in LPS induction of plant defenses, which may suggest a role for vesicle trafficking in the signalling process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Erbs
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Molinaro
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Dow
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000502:physiology; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000276:immunology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D050600:SNARE Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; C479425:PEN1 protein, Arabidopsis; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins; D050600:SNARE Proteins