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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (3): 591-602.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2024-0274

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CsPUB54 Negatively Regulates Cucumber Resistance to Phytophthora Melonis by Interacting with PmRXLR1 Effector

WANG Rui1,2, WU Hongfei1,3, ZHANG Changyuan1, CAO Haishun1, TAN Delong1, GUO Jinju1, WANG Yunlong1, WANG Rufang1, YUAN Yu1, WU Tingquan1,2,*()   

  1. 1 Institute of Facility Agriculture,Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Guangzhou 510640,China
    2 Vegetable Research Institute,Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Guangzhou 510640,China
    3 Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering,Guangzhou 510225,China
  • Received:2024-12-30 Revised:2025-02-13 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-03-25
  • Contact: WU Tingquan

Abstract:

B80 cucumber with highly susceptible to Phytophthora blight,and Phytophthora melonisP. melonis)were used as experimental materials. The gene that encodes a PUB protein containing the U-box domain from B80,named CsPUB54,and a RXLR effector protein gene,named PmRXLR1 from P. mellonis were cloned. Experimental results of transcriptome and qRT-PCR of cucumber leaves inoculated with P. mellonis for 24 hours both showed that the infection could induce rapid increase of gene expression levels of CsPUB54 and PmRXLR1. CsPUB54 gene silencing through transient gene silencing method could increase the resistance of cucumber cotyledons to P. melonis. In addition,the results of yeast two hybrid and Pull-down experiments confirmed that CsPUB54 could interact with PmRXLR1 both in vivo and in vitro. Using the method of base mutation,the W and Y functional domains of PmRXLR1 were mutated respectively,resulting in 7 mutants. The interaction detection between these mutants and CsPUB54 showed that the W and Y functional domains were necessary for the interaction between PmRXLR1 and CsPUB54,and the isoleucine(I)in the W functional domain was a key amino acid required for the interaction. Genetic evolution analysis of CsPUB54 and PUB proteins related to plant immune negative regulatory that have been published showed that CsPUB54 had a low genetic variation rate and the closest relationship with AtPUB22 and AtPUB23 in Arabidopsis thaliana. These research data suggest that CsPUB54 can negatively regulate cucumber resistance to P. melonis through interaction with PmRXLR1.

Key words: cucumber, Phytophthora blight, Phytophthora meloni, protein interaction, negative regulation, resistance