Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-30-2024
Publication Title
PLoS Pathogens
Abstract
Autophagy and Cell wall integrity (CWI) signaling are critical stress-responsive processes during fungal infection of host plants. In the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, autophagy-related (ATG) proteins phosphorylate CWI kinases to regulate virulence; however, how autophagy interplays with CWI signaling to coordinate such regulation remains unknown. Here, we have identified the phosphorylation of ATG protein MoAtg4 as an important process in the coordination between autophagy and CWI in M. oryzae. The ATG kinase MoAtg1 phosphorylates MoAtg4 to inhibit the deconjugation and recycling of the key ATG protein MoAtg8. At the same time, MoMkk1, a core kinase of CWI, also phosphorylates MoAtg4 to attenuate the C-terminal cleavage of MoAtg8. Significantly, these two phosphorylation events maintain proper autophagy levels to coordinate the development and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus.
PubMed ID
38289966
Volume
20
Issue
1
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Recommended Citation
Guo, Pusheng; Wang, Yurong; Xu, Jiayun; Yang, Zhixiang; Zhang, Ziqi; Qian, Jinyi; Hu, Jiexiong; Yin, Ziyi; Yang, Leiyun; Liu, Muxing; Liu, Xinyu; Li, Gang; Zhang, Haifeng; Rumsey, Ryan; Wang, Ping; and Zhang, Zhengguang, "Autophagy and cell wall integrity pathways coordinately regulate the development and pathogenicity through MoAtg4 phosphorylation in Magnaporthe oryzae" (2024). School of Medicine Faculty Publications. 2208.
https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/som_facpubs/2208
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