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@article{Godson:2026:10.1111/nph.71407,
author = {Godson, A and Eddie, L and Schuster, M and Zheng, K and Toth, R and Li, Y and Li, T and Huang, J and Kaschani, F and Jutras, PV and Kourelis, J and Kaiser, M and Bozkurt, T and Van, der Hoorn RAL},
doi = {10.1111/nph.71407},
journal = {New Phytol},
title = {NbRD21 protease controls receptor kinase homeostasis in Nicotiana benthamiana.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.71407},
year = {2026}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - RD21-like proteases are papain-like cysteine proteases with a C-terminal granulin domain that are abundant and ubiquitous in angiosperms and have often been implicated in immunity. We previously found that the activity of RD21 in Nicotiana benthamiana (NbRD21) is suppressed during infection with Pseudomonas syringae. Here, we studied the role of NbRD21 in immunity and proteome processing. NbRD21 was disrupted by genome editing and rd21 mutants were subjected to disease assays and shotgun proteomics. Dipeptide substrate zLR-AMC was used in protease assays and agroinfiltration was used to transiently express NbRD21 and candidate substrates. Genome-edited lines lacking NbRD21 develop normally but have drastically reduced zLRase activity and are significantly more susceptible to P. syringae. Shotgun proteomics revealed an increased accumulation of c. 20 diverse receptor-like kinases (RLKs) in untreated rd21 knockout lines, but their transcript levels are unaltered when compared to wild-type plants. 35S-driven GFP-tagged RLKs accumulate more upon transient expression in rd21 plants than in wild-type plants. These data indicate that NbRD21 post-translationally controls RLK homeostasis, either by directly degrading RLKs or indirectly by regulating endocytic RLK recycling.
AU - Godson,A
AU - Eddie,L
AU - Schuster,M
AU - Zheng,K
AU - Toth,R
AU - Li,Y
AU - Li,T
AU - Huang,J
AU - Kaschani,F
AU - Jutras,PV
AU - Kourelis,J
AU - Kaiser,M
AU - Bozkurt,T
AU - Van,der Hoorn RAL
DO - 10.1111/nph.71407
PY - 2026///
TI - NbRD21 protease controls receptor kinase homeostasis in Nicotiana benthamiana.
T2 - New Phytol
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.71407
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/42437969
ER -
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