PAPP2C Interacts with the Atypical Disease Resistance Protein RPW8.2 and Negatively Regulates Salicylic Acid-Dependent Defense Responses in Arabidopsis

摘要

Many fungal and oomycete pathogens differentiate a feeding structure named the haustorium to extract nutrition from the plant epidermal cell.The atypical resistance (R) protein RPW8.2 activates salicylic acid (SA)-dependent,haustorium-targeted defenses against Golovinomyces spp.,the causal agents of powdery mildew diseases on multiple plant species.How RPW8.2 activates defense remains uncharacterized.Here,we report that RPW8.2 interacts with the phytochrome-associated protein phosphatase type 2C (PAPP2C) in yeast and in planta as evidenced by coimmunoprecipitation and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays.Down-regulation of PAPP2C by RNA interference (RNAi) in Col-0 plants lacking RPW8.2 leads to leaf spontaneous cell death and enhanced disease resistance to powdery mildew via the SA-dependent signaling pathway.Moreover,down-regulation of PAPP2C by RNAi in the RPW8.2 background results in strong HR-like cell death,which correlates with elevated RPW8.2 expression.We further demonstrate that hemagglutinin (HA)-tagged PAPP2C prepared from tobacco leaf cells transiently transformed with HA-PAPP2C possesses phosphatase activity.In addition,silencing a rice gene (Os04g0452000) homologous to PAPP2C also results in spontaneous cell death in rice.Combined,our results suggest that RPW8.2 is functionally connected with PAPP2C and that PAPP2C negatively regulates SA-dependent basal defense against powdery mildew in Arabidopsis.