Plant degradation: a nematode expansin acting on plants

Ling Qin; Urszula Kudla; Erwin H A Roze; Aska Goverse; Herman Popeijus; Jeroen Nieuwland; Hein Overmars; John T Jones; Arjen Schots; Geert Smant; Jaap Bakker; Johannes Helder

doi:10.1038/427030a

Plant degradation: a nematode expansin acting on plants

Ling Qin, Urszula Kudla, Erwin H A Roze, Aska Goverse, Herman Popeijus, Jeroen Nieuwland, Hein Overmars, John T Jones, Arjen Schots, Geert Smant, Jaap Bakker, Johannes Helder

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Abstract

Expansin proteins, which have so far been identified only in plants, rapidly induce extension of plant cell walls by weakening the non-covalent interactions that help to maintain their integrity. Here we show that an animal, the plant-parasitic roundworm Globodera rostochiensis, can also produce a functional expansin, which it uses to loosen cell walls when invading its host plant. As this nematode is known to be able to disrupt covalent bonds in plant cell walls, its accompanying ability to loosen non-covalent bonds challenges the prevailing view that animals are genetically poorly equipped to degrade plant cell walls.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30
Journal	Nature
Volume	427
Issue number	6969
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/427030a
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2004

Keywords

Animals
Cell Wall
Gene Expression Regulation
In Situ Hybridization
Molecular Sequence Data
Nematoda
Plant Cells
Plant Proteins
Plants
Protein Structure, Tertiary
RNA, Messenger

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