Volume 27, No 12, Dec 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 27 Issue 12, December 2017: 1521-1524   |  Open Access

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Structural basis for BIR1-mediated negative regulation of plant immunity

Cuiyan Ma^1,*, Yanan Liu^2,*, Bing Bai^3,*, Zhifu Han³, Jiao Tang⁴, Heqiao Zhang³, Hoda Yaghmaiean², Yuelin Zhang² and Jijie Chai³

¹School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
²Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
³Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Science, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
⁴Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China Correspondence: Jijie Chai, Tel: +86-10-62797718 E-mail: chaijj@tsinghua.edu.cn; Yuelin Zhang,(yuelin.zhang@ubc.ca)

Plant receptor kinases (RKs) can function as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) for perception of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to induce immune responses1,2. One of such PRRs is the leucine-rich repeat RK (LRR-RK) FLAGELLIN-SENSING 2 (FLS2) that recognizes bacteria-derived flagellin (flg22 epitope)3,4. The smaller LRR-RK BRI1-associated kinase 1 (BAK1) acts as a co-receptor with FLS25,6.

10.1038/cr.2017.123

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