Network modeling reveals prevalent negative regulatory relationships between signaling sectors in Arabidopsis immune signaling.
Network modeling reveals prevalent negative regulatory relationships between signaling sectors in Arabidopsis immune signaling.
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1001011
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发表时间:
2010-07-22
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影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Katagiri F
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作者:
Sato M;Tsuda K;Wang L;Coller J;Watanabe Y;Glazebrook J;Katagiri F
Biological signaling processes may be mediated by complex networks in which network components and network sectors interact with each other in complex ways. Studies of complex networks benefit from approaches in which the roles of individual components are considered in the context of the network. The plant immune signaling network, which controls inducible responses to pathogen attack, is such a complex network. We studied the Arabidopsis immune signaling network upon challenge with a strain of the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae expressing the effector protein AvrRpt2 (Pto DC3000 AvrRpt2). This bacterial strain feeds multiple inputs into the signaling network, allowing many parts of the network to be activated at once. mRNA profiles for 571 immune response genes of 22 Arabidopsis immunity mutants and wild type were collected 6 hours after inoculation with Pto DC3000 AvrRpt2. The mRNA profiles were analyzed as detailed descriptions of changes in the network state resulting from the genetic perturbations. Regulatory relationships among the genes corresponding to the mutations were inferred by recursively applying a non-linear dimensionality reduction procedure to the mRNA profile data. The resulting static network model accurately predicted 23 of 25 regulatory relationships reported in the literature, suggesting that predictions of novel regulatory relationships are also accurate. The network model revealed two striking features: (i) the components of the network are highly interconnected; and (ii) negative regulatory relationships are common between signaling sectors. Complex regulatory relationships, including a novel negative regulatory relationship between the early microbe-associated molecular pattern-triggered signaling sectors and the salicylic acid sector, were further validated. We propose that prevalent negative regulatory relationships among the signaling sectors make the plant immune signaling network a “sector-switching” network, which effectively balances two apparently conflicting demands, robustness against pathogenic perturbations and moderation of negative impacts of immune responses on plant fitness. When a plant detects pathogen attack, this information is conveyed through a molecular signaling network to turn on a large variety of immune responses. We investigated how this plant immune signaling network was organized using the model plant Arabidopsis. Wild type and mutant plants with defects in immune signaling were challenged with a pathogen. Then, expression levels of many genes were measured using microarrays. Detailed analysis of the mutation effects on gene expression allowed us to build a signaling network model composed of the genes corresponding to the mutations. This model predicted that the network components are highly interconnected and that it is very common for network components that mediate different signaling events to inhibit each other. The prevalent signaling inhibitions in the network suggest that only part of the signaling network is usually used but that if this part is attacked by pathogens, other parts kick in and back up the function of the attacked part. We speculate that plant immune signaling is highly tolerant to pathogen attack due to this backup mechanism. We also speculate use of only part of the network at any one time helps minimize negative impacts of the immune response on plant fitness.
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