Bacterial host adaptation through sequence and structural variations of a single type III effector gene

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Lauber, Emmanuelle | González-Fuente, Manuel | Escouboué, Maxime | Vicédo, Céline | Luneau, Julien, S | Pouzet, Cécile | Jauneau, Alain | Gris, Carine | Zhang, Zhi-Min | Pichereaux, Carole | Carrère, Sébastien | Deslandes, Laurent | Noël, Laurent, D

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International audience. Molecular mechanisms underlying quantitative variations of pathogenicity remain elusive. Here, we identified the Xanthomonas campestris XopJ6 effector that triggers disease resistance in cauliflower and Arabidopsis thaliana . XopJ6 is a close homolog of the Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum PopP2 YopJ family acetyltransferase. XopJ6 is recognized by the RRS1-R/RPS4 NLR pair that integrates a WRKY decoy domain mimicking effector targets. We identified a XopJ6 natural variant carrying a single residue substitution in XopJ6 WRKY-binding site that disrupts interaction with WRKY proteins. This mutation allows XopJ6 to evade immune perception while retaining some XopJ6 virulence functions. Interestingly, xopJ6 resides in a Tn 3 -family transposon likely contributing to xopJ6 copy number variation (CNV). Using synthetic biology, we demonstrate that xopJ6 CNV tunes pathogen virulence on Arabidopsis through gene dosage -mediated modulation of xopJ6 expression . Together, our findings highlight how sequence and structural genetic variations restricted at a particular effector gene contribute to bacterial host adaptation.

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