TY - JOUR
T1 - Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family
AU - Klymiuk, Valentina
AU - Yaniv, Elitsur
AU - Huang, Lin
AU - Raats, Dina
AU - Fatiukha, Andrii
AU - Chen, Shisheng
AU - Feng, Lihua
AU - Frenkel, Zeev
AU - Krugman, Tamar
AU - Lidzbarsky, Gabriel
AU - Chang, Wei
AU - Jääskeläinen, Marko J.
AU - Schudoma, Christian
AU - Paulin, Lars
AU - Laine, Pia
AU - Bariana, Harbans
AU - Sela, Hanan
AU - Saleem, Kamran
AU - Sørensen, Chris Khadgi
AU - Hovmøller, Mogens S.
AU - Distelfeld, Assaf
AU - Chalhoub, Boulos
AU - Dubcovsky, Jorge
AU - Korol, Abraham B.
AU - Schulman, Alan H.
AU - Fahima, Tzion
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Yellow rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating fungal disease threatening much of global wheat production. Race-specific resistance (R)-genes are used to control rust diseases, but the rapid emergence of virulent Pst races has prompted the search for a more durable resistance. Here, we report the cloning of Yr15, a broad-spectrum R-gene derived from wild emmer wheat, which encodes a putative kinase-pseudokinase protein, designated as wheat tandem kinase 1, comprising a unique R-gene structure in wheat. The existence of a similar gene architecture in 92 putative proteins across the plant kingdom, including the barley RPG1 and a candidate for Ug8, suggests that they are members of a distinct family of plant proteins, termed here tandem kinase-pseudokinases (TKPs). The presence of kinase-pseudokinase structure in both plant TKPs and the animal Janus kinases sheds light on the molecular evolution of immune responses across these two kingdoms.
AB - Yellow rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating fungal disease threatening much of global wheat production. Race-specific resistance (R)-genes are used to control rust diseases, but the rapid emergence of virulent Pst races has prompted the search for a more durable resistance. Here, we report the cloning of Yr15, a broad-spectrum R-gene derived from wild emmer wheat, which encodes a putative kinase-pseudokinase protein, designated as wheat tandem kinase 1, comprising a unique R-gene structure in wheat. The existence of a similar gene architecture in 92 putative proteins across the plant kingdom, including the barley RPG1 and a candidate for Ug8, suggests that they are members of a distinct family of plant proteins, termed here tandem kinase-pseudokinases (TKPs). The presence of kinase-pseudokinase structure in both plant TKPs and the animal Janus kinases sheds light on the molecular evolution of immune responses across these two kingdoms.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-018-06138-9
DO - 10.1038/s41467-018-06138-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 30282993
AN - SCOPUS:85054325175
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 9
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 3735
ER -