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Abstract
The sugar alcohol mannitol and its catabolic enzyme mannitol dehydrogenase (MTD), in addition to well-documented roles in metabolism and osmoprotection, may play roles in host-pathogen interactions. Research suggests that in response to the mannitol that pathogenic fungi secrete to suppress reactive oxygen-mediated host defenses, plants make MTD to catabolize fungal mannitol. Yet previous work suggested that pathogen-secreted mannitol is extracellular, while in healthy plants MTD is cytoplasmic. We have presented results showing that the normally cytoplasmic MTD is exported into the cell wall or extracellular space in response to the endogenous inducer of plant defense responses salicylic acid (SA). This SA-induced secretion is insensitive to brefeldin A, an inhibitor of Golgi-mediated protein transport. Together with the absence of MTD in Golgi stacks and the lack of a documented extracellular targeting sequence in the MTD protein, this suggests MTD is secreted by a non-Golgi, pathogen-activated secretion mechanism in plants. Here we discuss the potential significance of non-Golgi secretion in response to stress.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by grants from the US Department of Agriculture and the North Carolina Agricultural Service to J.D.W. and D.M.P.
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Figure 1 Proposed mechanisms for non-Golgi secretion of normally cytoplasmic proteins in animals. (1) Translocation directly across the plasma membrane. (2) Endolysozomal or secretory lysosomal pathway. (3) Intra-endosomal vesicle or multi-vesicular body pathway. (4) Membrane blebbing or micro-vesicle shedding. Adapted from Nickel and Rabouille.Citation3
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