LONELY-GUY Knocks Every Door: Crosskingdom Microbial Pathogenesis

Muhammad Naseem; Edita Sarukhanyan; Thomas Dandekar

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.017

LONELY-GUY Knocks Every Door: Crosskingdom Microbial Pathogenesis

Trends Plant Sci. 2015 Dec;20(12):781-783. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.017.

Authors

Muhammad Naseem¹, Edita Sarukhanyan¹, Thomas Dandekar²

Affiliations

¹ Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group, Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany.
² Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group, Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany. Electronic address: dandekar@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de.

PMID: 26777904
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.017

Abstract

Many plant microbial pathogens utilize cytokinins to establish inter-actions with their host. However, the production of cytokinins by an animal pathogen has just been reported for the first time. Here we discuss the impact of microbial secreted cytokinins on the infection dynamics in plant and animal cells.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aminohydrolases / metabolism
Animals
Arabidopsis Proteins / metabolism
Cytokinins / metabolism*
Host-Pathogen Interactions / physiology*
Immunity, Innate / physiology
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / metabolism*
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / pathogenicity
Plant Diseases / microbiology*
Rhodococcus / metabolism
Rhodococcus / pathogenicity

Substances

Arabidopsis Proteins
Cytokinins
Aminohydrolases
cytokinin riboside 5'-monophosphate phosphoribohydrolase, Arabidopsis