Liyuan Zhang1
Hansong Dong- 1Plant Immunity Research Group, National Key Laboratory of Crop Science, Department of Plant Pathology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China
- 2Plant Immunity Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Plant aquaporins (AQPs) of the plasma membrane intrinsic protein (PIP) family face constant risk of hijack by pathogens aiming to infect plants. PIPs can also be involved in plant immunity against infection. This review will utilize two case studies to discuss biochemical and structural mechanisms that govern the functions of PIPs in the regulation of plant infection and immunity. The first example concerns the interaction between rice Oryza sativa and the bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). To infect rice, Xoo uses the type III (T3) secretion system to secrete the proteic translocator Hpa1, and Hpa1 subsequently mediates the translocation of T3 effectors secreted by this system. Once shifted from bacteria into rice cells, effectors exert virulent or avirulent effects depending on the susceptibility of the rice varieties. The translocator function of Hpa1 requires cooperation with OsPIP1;3, the rice interactor of Hpa1. This role of OsPIP1;3 is related to regulatory models of effector translocation. The regulatory models have been proposed as, translocon-dependent delivery, translocon-independent pore formation, and effector endocytosis with membrane protein/lipid trafficking. The second case study includes the interaction of Hpa1 with the H2O2 transport channel AtPIP1;4, and the associated consequence for H2O2 signal transduction of immunity pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana, a non-host of Xoo. H2O2 is generated in the apoplast upon induction by a pathogen or microbial pattern. H2O2 from this source translocates quickly into Arabidopsis cells, where it interacts with pathways of intracellular immunity to confer plant resistance against diseases. To expedite H2O2 transport, AtPIP1;4 must adopt a specific conformation in a number of ways, including channel width extension through amino acid interactions and selectivity for H2O2 through amino acid protonation and tautomeric reactions. Both topics will reference relevant studies, conducted on other organisms and AQPs, to highlight possible mechanisms of T3 effector translocation currently under debate, and highlight the structural basis of AtPIP1;4 in H2O2 transport facilitated by gating and trafficking regulation.
Introduction
Aquaporins (AQPs) are membrane-intrinsic proteins initially defined as water (H2O) transporting channels in all organisms and subsequently found to have many other substrate specificities (de Groot and Grubmuller, 2001; Maurel et al., 2008, 2015; Sutka et al., 2017), such as hydrogen peroxide (HO; Tian et al., 2016). In plants, AQPs are classified into five major families (Chaumont et al., 2001; Maurel, 2007), including the plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIPs), tonoplast intrinsic proteins (TIPs), nodulin 26 like intrinsic proteins (NIPs), small basic intrinsic proteins (SIPs), and X intrinsic proteins (XIPs). The PIP family is further divided into the PIP1 subfamily made of PIP1;1 to PIP1;5 and the PIP2 subfamily consisting of PIP2;1 to PIP2;8 in most plant species (Maurel, 2007; Gomes et al., 2009; Laloux et al., 2018). While AQPs of the other four families function in substrate trafficking between organelles, PIPs are responsible for substrate transportation between the exterior and interior of cells (Maurel, 2007; Gomes et al., 2009; Kaldenhoff et al., 2014; Li et al., 2015; Bao, 2017).
Recently discovered functions of AQPs surpass the original “water channel” concept (Preston et al., 1992; Wudick et al., 2009; Heckwolf et al., 2011; Brown, 2017), and suggest implications in infection and immunity in both animals (Hara-Chikuma et al., 2015; Yang, 2017) and plants (Maurel et al., 2015; Wang X. et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). The functions of animal AQPs are no longer confined to substrate-transport-based processes such as urinary concentration and body fluid homeostasis (Brown, 2017), and are now known to include roles in various disease conditions and pathological states (Yang, 2017). Similarly, functional diversity – redundancy, overlapping, and extension beyond substrate transport – is a property of plant AQPs, especially PIPs (Ji and Dong, 2015b; Li et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2018, 2019; Li et al., 2019). The functional scope of PIPs goes far beyond water relations or drought tolerance, extending to the subcellular transport of reactive oxygen species (ROS), including H2O2 (Tian et al., 2016; Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019). H2O2 transport connects with signaling between the cell exterior and interior and between organelles, resulting in plant resistance to pathogen infection (Tian et al., 2016).
PIPs possess extracellular regions exposed to the outside environment (Maurel et al., 2015), and have potential to partake in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Here are several examples. Previous uses of induced resistance in crop protection (for example: Chen et al., 2008a, b; Fu et al., 2014; Wang F. et al., 2014) confirm the practical value of PIP-mediated immunity signal transduction (Tian et al., 2016). The correlation of PIP function in water transport with stress response results in promising strategies for improvement of plant tolerance to abiotic stresses, including drought (Balestrini et al., 2018). Drought tolerance in a variety of plant species is related to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, in which AM fungi (Rhizophagus spp.) show enhanced expression of AQP-encoding genes (Bárzana et al., 2014, 2015; Calvo-Polanco et al., 2016; Ruiz-Lozano et al., 2016; Sánchez-Romera et al., 2016; Ruiz-Lozano and Aroca, 2017). Surprisingly, the AM fungus R. clarus contributes its aquaglyceroporin (glycerol/water-transporting AQP) RcAQP3 to the mediation of long-distant polyphosphate translocation from the fungal vacuoles into cells of plant roots and leaves (Kikuchi et al., 2016). Genetic resources of plants, including the AQP transcriptome, can be used in responses to environmental cues, symbiotic microbes (AM fungi and rhizobia), and microbial pathogens (Desaki et al., 2018; Rey and Jacquet, 2018; Wang R. et al., 2018).
Due to their direct contact with the extracellular environment, PIPs risk being appropriated by plant pathogens to expedite infection (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). When infection is imminent, the real-time function of PIPs may switch from substrate transport to the regulation of plant responses to pathogens (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). This is either favorable or unfavorable to plant growth and development, depending on plant responses to pathogenicity determinants, called effectors, whose functions are subject to regulation of PIPs (Tian et al., 2016; Wang X. et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2019).
This review will summarize recent studies on the roles of PIPs in plant infection and immunity, and discuss the molecular, biochemical, and structural mechanisms involved. Discussion of infection will focus on type III (T3) effector translocation (T3ET) from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) into rice cells. Discussion of immunity will focus on the response of Arabidopsis to pathogens or pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), also termed microbial patterns. This review will reference studies investigating AQPs in animals, microbes, and other plants to highlight the broad importance of PIP function, from substrate transport to infection and immunity in plants.
The Circumstantial Function of a PIP in T3ET
PIPs possess three extracellular regions that are exposed to the outside environment (Maurel et al., 2015). As a result, they are at a constant risk of being hijacked by pathogens attempting to infect plants, and inevitably partake in immunity against infection. Therefore, PIPs are required to extend their function from substrate transport to plant infection and immunity when the circumstances demand it. Emerging evidence suggests the implication of OsPIP1;3 in rice infection by Xoo (Zhang et al., 2018; Bian et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019). In this case, OsPIP1;3 functions with the bacterial hydrophilic protein Hpa1, which belongs to the harpin-group proteins secreted by the T3 secretion pathway of Gram-negative plant-pathogenic bacteria (Wei et al., 1992; Tejeda-Dominguez et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). Hpa1 produced by X. oryzae (Zhu et al., 2000; Chen et al., 2008a) is involved in the virulence of bacterial pathogens (Wang X. et al., 2018). Hpa1 modulates physiological and pathological processes in plants in association with PIPs (Sang et al., 2012; Li et al., 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019; Ji and Dong, 2015b; Zhang et al., 2018). The virulence role of Hpa1 is determined by its biochemical properties. Hpa1 is a one-domain harpin, which share a unitary hydrophilic “harpin” domain distinct from the enzymatic domain present in two-domain harpins (Kvitko et al., 2007; Choi et al., 2013; Ji and Dong, 2015b). Two-domain harpins have potential to associate with the bacterial periplasm or plant cell walls to facilitate assembly of the T3 secretion machinery (Mushegian et al., 1996; Koraimann, 2003; Zhang et al., 2008; Dik et al., 2017; Hausner et al., 2017). One-domain harpins, including Hpa1, target plasma membranes (PMs), where they serve as T3 translocators to mediate T3ET (Kvitko et al., 2007; Bocsanczy et al., 2008; Wang X. et al., 2018; Bian et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019).
In Xoo-infected rice plants, secreted Hpa1 translocates at least two transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors – AvrXa10 and PthXo1, which are also produced via the pathway (Wang X. et al., 2018). Translocated effectors exert virulent or avirulent effects depending on the susceptibility of the plant variety (Yang et al., 2006; Büttner, 2016; Schreiber et al., 2016; Schwartz et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2018). The rice variety Nipponbare is susceptible to the TAL effector PthXo1 secreted by PXO99A, a well-studied Xoo strain (Yang et al., 2006; Wang X. et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2018). To infect Nipponbare plants, PXO99A secretes Hpa1 and delivers it to the cell surface, where Hpa1 interacts with OsPIP1;3 to facilitate the translocation of subsequently secreted PthXo1 into Nipponbare cells (Wang X. et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). PthXo1 then induces virulence by activating its regulatory target – the host susceptibility gene OsSWEET11 (Yang et al., 2006) in an OsPIP1;3-dependent manner (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). If the OsPIP1;3 gene is silenced by hairpin or knocked out by TALEN14, both PthXo1 translocation and OsSWEET11 expression incur concomitant impairments up to 70%, highly alleviating virulence as a consequence (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). In contrast, both events acquire >2-fold enhancements if OsPIP1;3 is overexpressed, causing marked aggravations in virulence (Li et al., 2019).
AvrXa10 is an avirulent effector secreted by the Xoo strain PXO86, and induces immune responses in the resistant rice variety IRBB10 (Tian et al., 2014). The plant immunity is determined by the disease-resistant gene Xa10, which is the target of AvrXa10 (Tian et al., 2014). Xa10 has two homologs in the Nipponbare genome – Xa10-Ni and Xa23-Ni, both of which function similarly to confer immune responses in Nipponbare plants inoculated with recombinant PXO99A strains that deliver the matching artificially designed TAL effectors (Wang et al., 2017). When avrXa10 is transferred from PXO86 into the PXO99A genome, the resulting PXO99A/avrXa10 recombinant delivers AvrXa10 in IRBB10 cells (Wang X. et al., 2018). Thereafter, AvrXa10 activates the disease resistant gene Xa10-Ni to confer the plant resistance against the blight disease (Wang X. et al., 2018). The AvrXa10 translocation and Xa10-Ni activation incur concomitant impairments in plants inoculated with the hpa1-deleted mutant; the absence of hpa1 markedly reduces the quantity of AvrXa10 translocation, decreasing the expression level of Xa10-Ni (Wang X. et al., 2018). The AvrXa10 translocation and Xa10-Ni activation requires OsPIP1;3, and both events are enhanced by OsPIP1;3 overexpression but inhibited by OsPIP1;3 silencing (Bian et al., 2019).
These findings demonstrate the important role of OsPIP1;3 in the translocation of T3 effectors, at least the TAL effectors PthXo1 and AvrXa10, from bacterial cells into the cytosol of rice cells. OsPIP1;3 functions either as a disease-susceptibility or -resistance factor, depending on a virulent or avirulent function of the translocated effector.
Potential Mechanisms of T3ET Regulation
Passages of proteic T3 effectors are 1.2–5.0 nanometers in width (Ji and Dong, 2015b; Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016), in contrast to PIP/AQP channels with an aperture around 3 Å, which is permeable to small substrates (Heckwolf et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2016) but impossible for proteins to pass (Li et al., 2019). Presumably, the role of OsPIP1;3 in T3ET complies with one of regulation models currently in debate (Domingues et al., 2016; Prasad et al., 2016; Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017; Scheibner et al., 2017; Tejeda-Dominguez et al., 2017; Gaytán et al., 2018; Wagner et al., 2018; Shanmugam and Dalbey, 2019). Three models have been proposed as the canonical translocon-dependent delivery (Büttner, 2012; Figure 1 middle purple route) and the translocon-independent pore formation (Rüter et al., 2010; Figure 1 left black route) and endocytosis (Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017; Figure 1 right red route). To date, studies on the three models have obtained empirical genetic evidence (Finsel and Hilbi, 2015; Domingues et al., 2016; Dong et al., 2016; Chakravarthy et al., 2017; Scheibner et al., 2017), but the structural basis of each model remains to be analyzed.
Figure 1. Hypothetic routes of T3ET using Xoo as an example. Effector translocation may use the left black route (Rüter et al., 2010; Scheibner et al., 2017) or the right red pathway (Lu et al., 2007; Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017) according to recently proposed models. In a previously proposed model, T3ET occurs via the translocon (the middle purple route) hypothetically assembled by interactions between translocators, and their receptors in eukaryotic PMs (Büttner, 2012; Ji and Dong, 2015b). Three translocators have been identified in animal-pathogenic bacteria, but the number of T3 translocator remains unknown in plant-pathogenic bacteria including Xoo. In Xoo, the hydrophilic protein Hpa1 (Wang X. et al., 2018) and the hydrophobic protein HrpF (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011) were determined to function as T3 translocators, but whether the third translocator exists is unclear (question marks). Regarding molecular interactions during the translocon assembly, OsPIP1;3 has been verified to interact with Hpa1 at rice PMs to expedite the translocation of TAL effectors AvrXa10 and PthXo1 (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019). In the cartoon, numbers 1 through 5 refer to the order of the translocator in self oligomerization to form the homogenous complex, which is assumed to be consisting of 5 or 8 monomers (Mueller et al., 2008). In vitro assays indicated HrpF binding to lipids (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011), such as PI4P, but no evidence was available to demonstrate the lipid binding at plant PMs and the subsequent effect on T3 effector translocation.
The first model of T3ET (Figure 1 middle purple route) was proposed to emphasize molecular interactions between T3 translocators and molecular interactions of T3 translocators with PM receptors (Büttner and Bonas, 2002; Büttner et al., 2008; Büttner, 2012; Ji and Dong, 2015b), either lipids (Haapalainen et al., 2011; Li et al., 2011), or proteins (Oh and Beer, 2007; Li et al., 2015; Adam et al., 2017). T3 translocators include one hydrophilic protein, such as Hpa1 from xanthomonads – bacteria in the Xanthomonas genus (Zhu et al., 2000; Chen et al., 2008a; Wang X. et al., 2018), and two hydrophobic proteins (Büttner et al., 2008; Ji and Dong, 2015b), such as HrpF from the same bacteria (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011; Hausner et al., 2017). Recognition of the hydrophilic translocator by a component of the PM composition is the first step towards translocon assembly (Goure et al., 2004; Mueller et al., 2008; Sawa et al., 2014). Then, the translocon is finalized by the binding of lipids to hydrophobic translocators (Büttner et al., 2008; Büttner, 2012; Ji and Dong, 2015b). A completed translocon possesses an inner conduit that opens into a target cell and accommodates bacterial effector translocation (Büttner et al., 2008; Chatterjee et al., 2013; Ji and Dong, 2015b; Büttner, 2016).
Although there is no evidence so far to verify the T3 translocon assembly, many studies suggest the involvement of T3 translocators in effector translocation from animal- and plant-pathogenic bacteria into cells of their corresponding eukaryotic hosts (summarized in Scheibner et al., 2017). Mounting evidence indicates the engagement of PM phospholipids in T3ET, especially phosphatidylinositol phosphates PI(n)Pn (Lee et al., 2001a, b; Büttner et al., 2002; Weber et al., 2006; Hubber and Roy, 2010; Li et al., 2011; Finsel and Hilbi, 2015; Dong et al., 2016). For T3ET from xanthomonads, lipids in the plant PM associates with the bacterial hydrophobic T3 translocator HrpF (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011). HrpF was the first reported T3 translocator and is regarded as a marker of T3 translocon in xanthomonads (Büttner et al., 2002; Scheibner et al., 2017). HrpF is highly conserved in xanthomonads (Sugio et al., 2005) and has been shown to mediate the translocation of AvrBs3 from X. campestris pv. vesicatoria (Xcv) – the bacterial spot pathogen of pepper (Büttner et al., 2002; Noël et al., 2002), and from X. oryzae pv. oryzicola — the pathogen that causes bacterial leaf streak in rice (Li et al., 2011). Evidence is further provided by our demonstrations that the hydrophilic T3 translocator Hpa1 of Xoo interacts with OsPIP1;3 at rice PMs to expedite translocation of TAL effectors PthXo1 and AvrXa10 from Xoo cells into the cytosol of rice cells (Zhang et al., 2018; Bian et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019).
The second model of T3ET (Figure 1 left black pathway) is the translocon-independent pore formation by bacterial effectors characteristic of cell-penetrating peptide (RPP; Scharnert et al., 2013; Rüter and Schmidt, 2017). Pore forming in eukaryotic PMs is momentary, occurs quickly upon recognition of bacterial effectors, and is regulated by membrane repair mechanisms (Scharnert et al., 2013). RPPs are either autonomously transported across the membrane or delivered by endocytosis (Wang F. et al., 2014). Autonomous translocation was found with the T3 effector YopM from Yersinia enterocolitica (Rüter et al., 2010). The YopM sequence contains two N-terminal α-helices, which determines the interaction with eukaryotic PMs (Li et al., 2019), and two putative nuclear localization signals at the C-terminus (Benabdillah et al., 2004). Therefore, YopM can be translocated directly into the cytosol of target cells and further transported into the nucleus via vesicle trafficking (Skrzypek et al., 1998).
Little is known about the translocon-independent translocation of T3 effectors from plant-pathogenic bacteria except for the TAL effector AvrBs3 from Xcv. Preliminary infection experiments with Xcv translocon mutants and endocytosis inhibitors deny a contribution of endocytosis to the delivery of AvrBs3 (Scheibner et al., 2017). A possible route for AvrBs3 translocation from the translocon mutants is a direct transportation through pore formation. The pore could be proteolipidic (Gilbert et al., 2014) and could be generated by means of proteic and lipidic constituents, which are required for the translocation of T3 effectors from xanthomonads (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011, 2019). However, the efficiency of AvrBs3 translocation from the translocon mutants is much lower than that from the WT strain, indicating that the translocon-independent route is used in the absence of alternative.
The third model of T3ET (Figure 1 left black pathway) was recently proposed to emphasize the effector endocytosis through direct interaction with receptors situated in eukaryotic PMs (Domingues et al., 2016). The molecular interaction may trigger the membrane trafficking mechanism (Allgood and Neunuebel, 2018) either by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or vesicles (Wudick et al., 2015), providing a potential scheme for bacterial effector endocytosis (Figure 2). Protein and lipid trafficking via ER is universal (Cybulsky, 2017; Obacz et al., 2017), and vesicle-mediated PIP trafficking has been elucidated in roots of Arabidopsis following treatment with H2O2 (Wudick et al., 2015). The treatment induces AtPIP2;1 accumulation in the late endosomal compartments, and increases stability of the PIP and its homologs in the cytoplasm (Wudick et al., 2015). Like AtPIP1;4 (Li et al., 2015, 2019), AtPIP2;1 also is an H2O/H2O2/CO2 triple channel (Heckwolf et al., 2011; Rodrigues et al., 2017), but no study shows whether or not AtPIP2;1 resembles AtPIP1;4 to regulate bacterial effector translocation. It is deserved of studying whether multiple substrate specificities of a PIP enable it to accommodate bacterial effectors.
Figure 2. Diagram of hypothesized PM protein and lipid trafficking that is going through ER (Obacz et al., 2017) or vesicles (Wudick et al., 2015) and drives T3 effector endocytosis (Domingues et al., 2016). The OsPIP1;3-dependent and/or PI4P-involved PthXo1 and AvrXa10 translocation is used as a study paradigm. The protein and lipid trafficking pathways are annotated as a motivation for both effectors to be internalized and then both effectors execute the transcriptional regulation on their target genes. Both pathways may involve unannotated response, that is the recognition of Hpa1 by OsPIP1;3 and HrpF by PI4P (Büttner et al., 2002, Büttner, 2012; Ji and Dong, 2015b). The protein and lipid trafficking may be concurrent, cooperative or independent, making responses on PMs more intricate than the regular remodeling in the absence of bacterial proteins (Hubber and Roy, 2010; Piscatelli et al., 2016; Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017).
There are two examples indicating the possibility that T3 effectors of plant-pathogenic bacteria are translocated along with membrane trafficking. One is the T3 effector HopZ1a of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, bacterial pathogen of many plants. HopZ1a, HopZ1b, and HopZ1c are allelic forms, constitute the HopZ1 family of P. syringae T3 secretion system, and share a consensus myristoylation site required for membrane localization (Zhou et al., 2009). HopZ1a is an acetyltransferase, is activated by the eukaryotic co-factor phytic acid, and turns to acetylate itself and tubulin. Tubulin acetylation causes a decrease in microtubule networks, disrupts the secretory pathway, and suppresses cell wall-associated defense in plants (Lee et al., 2012). The defense is subject to complex regulatory networks, which involve vesicle trafficking linked to microtubules (Lehman et al., 2017). The other example is the T3 effector HopM1 of P. syringae pv. tomato. To infect tomato plants, the bacteria secrets HopM1, and delivers it into the plant PM-derived trans-Golgi network/early endosome (Nomura et al., 2011), suggesting a role of vesicle trafficking in HopM1 translocation.
The involvement of AQPs in T3 effector endocytosis can be speculated from independent studies summarized below. The trafficking of animal AQPs towards the cell interior is triggered by the AQP binding to a different protein (Zelazny et al., 2009; Ji and Dong, 2015a), such as vasopressin (Kamsteeg et al., 2006), or heat shock protein HSP70 (Lu et al., 2007). Nevertheless, molecular interactions at the PM transiently affect PM integrity (Laliberté and Sanfaçon, 2010; Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016; Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017), which may extricate and internalize PM-associated proteins to accommodate foreign molecules like T3 effectors. It is possible that AvrBs3 and PthXo1 use this mechanism to enter rice cells together with OsPIP1;3 trafficking (Figure 2). Both effectors may be internalized through trafficking of OsPIP1;3 en route to degradation by the proteasome (Hirano et al., 2003; Centrone et al., 2017) or the autophagosome (Khositseth et al., 2017). This mode of trafficking and degradation has been shown to regulate animal AQP turnover (Khositseth et al., 2017; Shen et al., 2019) and may also apply to plant AQPs. It is necessary to verify whether OsPIP1;3, or any other PIPs, can interact with any of the bacterial effectors, in the absence of Hpa1, to cause the PIP and effector internalization.
How could PM binding lead to endocytosis of bacterial effectors? The binding of effectors or translocators to the PM induces transient damage to the integrity and function of PM compositions, providing an abnormal pathway for bacterial effector translocation (Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016). In addition to T3, other secretion systems, such as T4, may be involved also (Domingues et al., 2016). Salmonella enterica serovars are intracellular facultative pathogens with a wide host range, and cause serious diseases including typhoid fever and cholera in humans (Domingues et al., 2016; Piscatelli et al., 2016). About 40 different T3 effectors confer differential virulence to different serovars. For infection, Salmonella bacteria establish a bacteria-containing vacuole (BVC), induce tubules, and then deliver the T3 effector SteA onto the BCV and tubules. In both structures, SteA specifically interacts with PI4P to move into host cells (Domingues et al., 2016). Legionella pneumophila, the pathogen responsible for Legionnaire’ disease, creates BCV through effectors secreted by the Dot/Icm T4 system (Finsel and Hilbi, 2015). In BCV, the pathogen hijacks host PM trafficking to induce BCV maturation (Hubber and Roy, 2010). The BCV membrane mainly contains PI4P (Weber et al., 2006; Finsel and Hilbi, 2015), which is important for anchoring many Dot/Icm effectors onto BCV (Dong et al., 2016). The T4 effector LepBd of L. pneumophila is a phosphatase (PP), and specifically converts PI3P into PI(3,4)P2. PI(3,4)P2 is efficiently hydrolyzed into PI4P (Dong et al., 2016), which may be used to replenish the PI4P stock of BCV. This mechanism is also employed by the T3 effector SopB of cholera pathogen S. enterica serovar Typhimurium. Like the T4 effector LepBd of L. pneumophila, the T3 effector SopB of Typhimurium is also a PP, but possesses both 4-PP and 5-PP activities. This dual enzymatic function is essential for the formation of BCV membrane ruffles and subsequent bacterial invasion. The 5-PP activity of SopB is assumed to generate PI(3,4)P2, which is then recruited by sorting nexin 9 (SNX9), an actin-modulating protein. The 4-PP activity converts PI(3,4)P2 to PI3P. Alone, neither activity is sufficient for membrane ruffling. Instead, combined 4-PP and 5-PP activities induce SNX9-mediated membrane ruffling and bacterial invasion (Dong et al., 2016).
The three models of T3ET may be chosen to use circumstantially by bacteria with genetic variations in the T3 repertoire. For example, the translocon-dependent mechanism guarantees efficient translocation of AvrBs3 from the wild-type Xcv strain (Büttner et al., 2002), in contrast to insufficient translocation from the bacterial translocon mutants in a translocon-independent manner (Scheibner et al., 2017). An early report stated that the carboxy (C)-terminal region of HrpF is essential for the entry of Xcv AvrBs3 into plant cells, whereas the nitrogen (N)-terminal contains a secretion signal and has no effect on effector translocation (Büttner et al., 2002). This suggests that xanthomonads T3ET occurs in a translocon-dependent manner. By contrast, a recent report proposed a translocon-independent pathway (Scheibner et al., 2017). The N-terminal 10 and 50 amino acids are required for T3 secretion and AvrBs3 translocation, respectively. Additional signals in the N-terminal 30 amino acids and the region between amino acids 64 and 152 promote AvrBs3 translocation. AvrBs3 translocation occurs in the absence of the T3 secretion chaperon HpaB, and in the absence of HrpF, which is a predicted component of the T3 translocon assembly. The authors suggested that the delivery of AvrBs3 begins during the early stages of infection, before the activation of HpaB or translocon integration into the plant PM (Scheibner et al., 2017). It is more likely that a different translocator, present in reserve and lacking function when the bacteria possesses a workable HrpF, is employed when HrpF loses function or is removed from the bacterial proteome.
A Cytological Gap Between H2O2 Signaling and Immunity Pathways
H2O2 is stable compared with other ROS molecules such as the superoxide anion O2– and hydroxyl radical OH–. In plants, H2O2 is produced by the enzymatic activities via multiple biochemical mechanisms (Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019). These mechanisms include electron leakage from the electron transport chain in chloroplasts and mitochondria, the activity of peroxisomal oxidases and peroxidases in cytoplasm or plant cell walls, as well as the activity of NADPH oxidases (NOXs) in the PM (Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019). The rapid production of ROS, especially H2O2, indicates the successful recognition of pathogen infection and molecular patterns (Alvarez et al., 1998; Torres, 2009). Well-known examples of pathogenic patterns include invariant microbial epitopes, such as fungal chitin (Kaku et al., 2006) and bacterial flagellin (Zipfel et al., 2004) and harpin proteins (Sang et al., 2012; Choi et al., 2013). These pattern molecules can be recognized by pattern receptors within the PM, which induce immune responses, including H2O2 production, in plants (Levine et al., 1994; Ausubel, 2005; Galletti et al., 2011).
The production of H2O2 is typically apoplastic, resulting mainly from the enzymatic activity of NOXs located in PMs (Sagi and Fluhr, 2006; Kärkönen and Kuchitsu, 2015; Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019). Then, there is crosstalk between H2O2 and immunity pathways, such as systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) to regulate plant disease resistance (Torres, 2009). SAR is characteristic of the induced expression of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes, typically PR-1 and PR-2, under the regulation of non-inducer of PR genes-1 (NPR1) (Cao et al., 1997; Kim et al., 2011). NPR1 functions through conformational changes under cytoplasmic redox conditions (Tada et al., 2008) and through proteasome-mediated turnover in the nucleus (Spoel et al., 2009). The PTI pathway activates a cytoplasmic MAPK cascade (Asai et al., 2002), including a branch in which MPK3 and MPK6 phosphorylate different substrates (Bigeard et al., 2015; Pitzschke, 2015) to activate immune responses, including H2O2 and callose production (Bethke et al., 2012; Daudi et al., 2012). Callose is a β-1,3-glucan synthesized by glucan synthase-like (GSL) enzymes, with GSL5 playing a critical role in cellular immune responses (Lü et al., 2011). Therefore, both the SAR and PTI pathways comprise pivotal tiers of intracellular responses in the crosstalk with H2O2 produced in the apoplast (Sagi and Fluhr, 2006). It is clear that a cytological gap exists between H2O2 generation and functional performance. In fact, it remains unclear for a long time how apoplastic H2O2 penetrates plant PMs to enter the cytoplasm and regulate immunity.
PIP-Mediated H2O2 Transport and Its Immunological Importance
Hpa1, applied to plants or produced in transgenic plants, functions as a bacterial pattern to activate the PTI and SAR pathways (Tian et al., 2016). Both pathways are activated by the generation of ROS, especially H2O2, in plant apoplasts. In Arabidopsis, inoculation with the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato or treatment with bacterial patterns, including Hpa1 and the flagellin functional fragment flg22, induce H2O2 generation in the apoplast. This H2O2 moves quickly into the cytoplasm, where H2O2 associates with PTI and SAR signal transduction. AtPIP1;4 serves as a H2O2 transport channel to facilitate apoplastic H2O2 import into the cytoplasm (Figure 3A), bridging the cytological gap in immunity signaling cascades (Tian et al., 2016).
Figure 3. Crosstalk of AtPIP1;4-mediated H2O2 transport with the intracellular immunity pathways and predicted mechanisms by which AtPIP1;4 fulfills the substrate transport function. (A) Plant sensing of a pathogen or microbial pattern not only is an essential step of apoplastic generation and cytoplasmic import of H2O2, but also induces damages to the PM integrity (Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016). Impairment of the PM integrity is likely to provide an abnormal channel, which is wider than the normal conduit, and capable of accommodating substrates larger than H2O. (B) Hypothetic determinants of AtPIP1;4 conformation for H2O2 transport include amino acid compositions and locations in the NPA and SF regions. (C) Gating and trafficking regulation of the AtPIP1;4 channel for H2O2 transport across plant PMs (left) may be subject to the annotated factors (right). The 3D-structure of AtPIP1;4 was predicted by using the PHYRE2 (Protein Homology/analogy Recognition Engine V 2.0) program (http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/phyre2/html/page.cgi?id~=~index). The diagrammatic transport of H2O2 over H2O is a surmise, predicted to occur by the combined mechanisms indicated on right.
This finding validates the hypothesis that H2O2 transport across a biomembrane is mediated by particular AQP isoforms in addition to certain membrane lipids (Bienert et al., 2006, 2007; Bienert and Chaumont, 2014; Aguayo et al., 2015). AQPs are transmembrane channels essential for the transport of H2O, H2O2, and other small substrates in all living cells (Maurel, 2007; Gomes et al., 2009). In this way, AQPs can modulate many physiological and/or pathological processes (Maurel, 2007; Ji and Dong, 2015a, 2015b; Li et al., 2019; Pawłowicz and Masajada, 2019; Zhang et al., 2019). In most plant species, five major families of AQPs exist. The PIP family has 11 members, PIP1;1–5 and PIP2;1–8 (Gomes et al., 2009; Abascal et al., 2014; Maurel et al., 2015). These are believed to mediate the transport of different substrates across plant PMs in an overlapping or redundant substrate-specific manner (Maurel, 2007; Péret et al., 2012, 2013; Prado et al., 2013). To date, five AtPIP isoforms (2;1, 2;2, 2;4, 2;5, and 2;7) are assumed to mediate H2O2 transport in engineered yeast cells (Bienert and Chaumont, 2014). The de novo expression of these PIPs can increase H2O2 sensitivity and decrease the viability of yeast (Dynowski et al., 2008; Hooijmaijers et al., 2012). Based on incomplete literature search, not all PIPs whose expression increases H2O2 sensitivity and decreases the viability of yeast have been verified for the H2O2 transporting function. AtPIP2;1 was determined to increase H2O2 uptake by yeast cells (Dynowski et al., 2008; Bienert and Chaumont, 2014) and by Arabidopsis guard cells (Rodrigues et al., 2017). AtPIP1;4 has been shown to function in H2O2 transport from the apoplast into the cytoplasm of Arabidopsis (Tian et al., 2016). Many works are required to test in planta function of the AQP candidates in H2O2 translocation.
Conservative AQP Function for H2O2 Transport
AtPIP1;4 was determined to have triple substrate specificities (Li et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2016). In addition to transporting H2O2 (Tian et al., 2016), AtPIP1;4 partakes in the cellular hydraulic conductance (Pf) of roots, and in mesophyll conductance of CO2 (gm); however, it does not affect stomatal CO2 conductance (gs) or Pf in leaves (Li et al., 2015). The interaction of AtPIP1;4 with Hpa1 at Arabidopsis PMs promotes substrate transport, increasing the net photosynthesis rate (AN), while Pf is also increased in leaves and roots (Li et al., 2015). Therefore, a PIP can alter its physiological functions or effect extents in response to plant pathogens or bacterial patterns.
The function of AtPIP1;4 in immunity is an extension of its primary roles in substrate transport, which was initially assigned to AQPs in mammals (Preston and Agre, 1991) and subsequently in plants (Maurel et al., 1993). The functional extension of AtPIP1;4 has biological importance for at least two reasons. First, AtPIP1;4-dependent SAR responses induced by bacterial pathogens effectively repress pathogen virulence (Tian et al., 2016; Figure 3A). In this case, pathogen-associated repressors of plant immunity (Oh and Collmer, 2005; Zhang et al., 2007; Guo et al., 2009) may be inhibited, or their immunity-repressing functions may be counteracted by the role of AtPIP1;4 in H2O2 translocation, which is linked to the immunity pathway. Second, AtPIP1;4 is an integral component of PTI in response to typical patterns, with conserved microbial cell-surface composition, i.e., flagellin (Zipfel et al., 2004) and chitin (Kaku et al., 2006). Despite their different biochemical nature, both patterns require AtPIP1;4 to induce PTI responses, except in the absence of induced MPK6 expression (Tian et al., 2016). This is consistent with previous findings that the MAPK cascade diverges at MPK3 and MPK6 (Asai et al., 2002; Bigeard et al., 2015) to regulate distinct substrates in response to different patterns (Galletti et al., 2011; Pitzschke, 2015). Moreover, the induction of MPK3 expression represents a circuit of the MAPK cascade in response to H2O2 (Gudesblat et al., 2007). These sets of information suggest that AtPIP1;4 plays a prominent role in immunity signaling by mediating apoplastic H2O2 translocation into plant cells.
AQP-mediated H2O2 transport in immune signaling also occurs in mammals. Among 13 AQPs, AQP3 is a H2O2 transport channel (Miller et al., 2010). AQP3-mediated H2O2 transport is associated with necrosis factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling in keratinocytes, and in the pathogenesis of psoriasis in response to cytokine regulation (Hara-Chikuma et al., 2015). The induction of psoriasis by cytokines, NF-κB activation, and intracellular H2O2 accumulation are concomitantly reduced in AQP3-knockout mice. In primary keratinocyte cultures, H2O2 is generated by membrane-associated NOX2 in response to TNF-α, and moves into intracellular spaces. Cellular import of H2O2 is facilitated by AQP3 and is required for NF-κB activation under PP2A regulation. Since AQP3 associates with NOX2 at PMs, this interplay may constitute H2O2-mediated signaling in response to TNF-α stimulation (Hara-Chikuma et al., 2015). Moreover, under oxidative stress, AQP3-mediated H2O2 transport attenuates apoptosis by regulating the P38 MAPK pathway (Xu et al., 2018; He and Yang, 2019). Based on these findings, and those regarding PIPs, cytoplasmic import across the PM can reduce the cytological distance for H2O2 generation, and functional performance (Bienert et al., 2006; Sang et al., 2012; Tian et al., 2016). Apocytoplastic signaling is conserved in plants and animals.
AQP Structure for H2O Transport
It is unclear how different AQPs function in the transport of corresponding substrates, and how an AQP, such as AtPIP1;4 (Li et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2016), can function as a triple substrate transport conduit. One hypothesis is that structural details allow for differences in selectivity and modes of regulation (Kreida and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015). Regarding H2O2 transport, the structures of AQP/PIP channels have not been studied, but can be inferred from information on structures of AQPs that function as water channels.
Plant aquaporins are predominant channels of H2O transport between the outside and inside of the cell, and between intracellular organelles (Huang et al., 2017). Although cotransporters and uniporters have been implicated in water homeostasis, AQPs have been accepted as intramolecular channels for the transmembrane movement of H2O down an osmotic gradient (Maurel et al., 2015; Huang et al., 2017; Yang, 2017; Pawłowicz et al., 2018). H2O transport by AQPs is determined by their three-dimensional structure.
Structural studies have characterized AQPs as homotetramers, which are integrated into the membrane with conserved configurations (Fu et al., 2000; Sui et al., 2001; Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2006; Horsefield et al., 2008; Eriksson et al., 2013; Kirscht et al., 2016). Each monomer has a functional pore formed by six α-helical TM domains (TM1–TM6), five connecting loops (LA–LE), and two shorter helices (HB and HE). The outward end of HB and inward end of LE contain a pair of asparagine (N), proline (P), and alamine (A) tandem (NPA) motifs, which constitute the central channel through the membrane (Kirscht et al., 2016). Two NPAs form a conical funnel or traditional hourglass, which are linked at the tip and open outward from LE and inward from TM5 (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010), and are essential for AQP function (Wree et al., 2011; Chen et al., 2018). Within LE, TM2 and TM5, the aromatic/arginine (Ar/R) selective filter (SF) is formed by four residues including aromatic amino acids and an arginine (R) residue; hence its name (de Groot et al., 2003). The SF is located in the outward opening of the channel and allows H2O to pass while repelling protons and cations (Eriksson et al., 2013). Multiple physical factors, such as hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions, electrostatic repulsion, and dipole alignment between amino acid residues within or around the NPA and SF, influence substrate selectivity (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2006).
A pivotal step toward the substrate-transporting function of AQPs is the regulation of gating (opening and closing) and trafficking (substrate transport). This has been elucidated for water channels at angstrom (Å) or sub-Å resolution (Daniels et al., 1999; Fotiadis et al., 2001; Kukulski et al., 2005; Kreida and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015). Considering spinach Spinacia oleracea SoPIP2;1, channel opening is triggered by the phosphorylation of conserved serine (S) 197 (Johansson et al., 1996; Kukulski et al., 2005), and is expedited by hydrogen bond networks in LD (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010). Channel closure results from the dephosphorylation of S115 in LB and S274 in the C-terminal region of the AQP sequence under conditions of drought stress, or from the protonation of a conserved histidine (H) residue following a decrease in cytoplasmic pH due to anoxia during flooding. Dissection of SoPIP2;1 crystal structures, both the closed conformation at 2.1 Å and the open conformation at 3.9 Å, reveals the importance of LD displacement for gating and trafficking. The dephosphorylation of S115 and S274 prevents outward NPA entry from LB, and inward NPA exit in TM5. In the open conformation of SoPIP2;1, S197 is phosphorylated at LD, LD is displaced up to 16 Å, the nitrogen terminus of TM5 extends a further half-turn into the cytoplasm, and NPA entry and exit are promoted. In addition, H193 protonation and interactions between amino acids, including hydrogen bond networks and electrostatic repulsion, also influence the switch between opening and closing of the channel (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010).
Crystal structure analysis of Aqy1, the only AQP in yeast Pichia pastoris, at a sub-Å (0.88 Å) resolution, provides evidence for tautomeric reactions to expedite H2O transport (Eriksson et al., 2013). Hydrophilic amino acids in NPA and SF interact to bind H2O molecules, which are then navigated through the channel. With polar hydrogen bond configurations, four H2O molecules per group pass the SF, and then divide into two pairs to pass through the inward NPA region. There are two types of tautomerism between hydrophilic amino acids in the SF. One is proton transfer – the atom Nδ, but not Nε, of H212 is protonated to provide a proton for L208, with the role of guiding H2O movement. The other one is covalent binding – atoms Cζ and Nη2 of R227 maximally bind to each other, Nη2 is closest to the central conduit, and its positive charge repels cations, creating favorable conditions for H2O to travel through the SF. With this advantage, four compact H2O molecules are located within the full space of the SF, where they synchronize to move within and across the SF passage. Due to high impacts of atom tautomerism and hydrogen-bond interactions restricted to the H2O molecules in transport, other H2O molecules must wait for the next round of the channel opening and trafficking, and proton or cations are unable to enter the SF.
In addition to the structural configuration, biochemical regulation is also indispensable to the function of AQPs. In this aspect, channel gating and trafficking regulation by phosphorylation are ubiquitous for all AQPs (Li and Wang, 2017; Kapilan et al., 2018; Laloux et al., 2018; Nesverova and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2019). Additionally critical mechanisms underlying the functional regulation of different AQPs include biotic and abiotic signals. They induce the transport of different substrates (Tian et al., 2016; Ruiz-Lozano and Aroca, 2017; Balestrini et al., 2018; Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019) by stimulating AQPs themselves with gradients over membranes and by interacting with other proteins (Ji and Dong, 2015a; Roche and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2017). These have been topics of many literatures (for example: Maurel and Plassard, 2011; Hara-Chikuma et al., 2015; Ji and Dong, 2015a; Maurel et al., 2015; Yang, 2017; Roche and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2017) and will not been discussed in this article.
Control of Substrate Specificities
This is a question for AQPs capable of transporting substrates other than H2O, especially those that have multiple permeation properties. In addition to H2O, approximately 20 other substrates require AQPs to move between the exterior and interior of cells, and between organelles (Laloux et al., 2018). A fifth pore created by four AQP monomers of a homotetramer in the lipid bilayer (Wang et al., 2007) or yeast membrane (Otto et al., 2010) has been proposed for gas (CO2 and O2) and ion transport (Kaldenhoff et al., 2014). Moreover, many AQPs have more than one substrate (Kreida and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015; Maurel et al., 2015; Fox et al., 2017; Laloux et al., 2018). Examples include AtPIP2;1 for H2O/H2O2 (Dynowski et al., 2008; Verdoucq et al., 2008), AtPIP1;4 for H2O/H2O2/CO2 (Li et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2016), and TIPs for H2O, H2O2 and/or ammonia (NH; Maurel et al., 1993; Loque et al., 2005; Bárzana et al., 2014) transport. Regulation of gating and trafficking must differ considerably between specialist channels, different generalist channels, and channels for H2O and a different substrate. Variation in NPA diameter, the composition and width of SF, neighboring residues, and their interactions with each other and with the substrate might explain multiple functions of AQPs/PIPs in the transport of different substrates, and the multiple substrate transport capacities of a single AQP/PIP (Fox et al., 2017).
Recently, a smart solution was proposed in a study on the 1.18 Å crystal structure of AtTIP2;1 (Kirscht et al., 2016). That study characterized AtTIP2;1 as an NH3 transport channel, which functions with an extended SF. The channel diameter in the NPA region is smaller than that of other AQPs, but remains constant at ∼3Å along the channel; this is in contrast to the narrowing of SF in other AQPs. The topological positions of four SF residues in TM2, TM5, LE, and HE are thought to determine substrate selectivity (de Groot et al., 2001). Consistent with this model, TIP2s deviate from other AQPs in terms of the wider SF, which is mainly caused by an isoleucine (I185) in TM5, replacing a histidine that is conserved in water-specific AQPs (Kirscht et al., 2016). The most striking feature of the SF in AtTIP2;1 is the R200 located in HE, while the arginine in HE is conserved in most AQPs. In AtTIP2;1, the R200 side chain is located at the edge of the channel due to the H131 situated in LC, making histidine the fifth residue of the extended SF. The position of this arginine is further stabilized by a hydrogen bond with histidine (H63) in TM2, which occupies the same space as the corresponding aromatic residues of water and glycerol channels without direct effects on the channel opening (Kirscht et al., 2016). Moreover, H131 in LC interacts directly with the substrate in the selectivity region. These structural features define the extended SF at five positions: I185, R200, H131, and H63, which have properties and configurations that establish the novel SF, plus G191 in LE, which is conserved in the canonical and extended SF. The concept of extended SF is instructive to conceiving study schemes before initiating analysis of APQ/PIP channels for transport of H2O2 and more substrates other than H2O and NH3.
Structural Basis of PIPs for Mediation of H2O2 Transport
Until the structural basis of PIP/AQP functions in H2O2 transport is dissected, no more than inspiration can be deduced from referencing the crystal structures of SoPIP2;1 for NH3 transport (Kirscht et al., 2016) and both Aqy1 (Eriksson et al., 2013) and AtTIP2;1 (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010) for H2O transport. The topological displacement of the connecting loop (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010) may have a broad importance for AQPs. Tautomeric reactions (Eriksson et al., 2013) and the SF extension (Kirscht et al., 2016) might be used by certain PIPs/AQPs to expedite H2O2 transport. However, these features are likely to be insufficient to support H2O2 transport, due to the difference in diameter/molecular mass of H2O2 (3.70 Å/34), H2O (2.96 Å/33) and NH3 (<2.96 Å/17), and in the Ar/R SF features. The location and composition of the SF is identical (F87, H126, T225, R231) in the H2O2 channel AtPIP2;1 (Rodrigues et al., 2017) and the water channel SoPIP2;1 (Kirscht et al., 2016). However, the SF composition shared by AtPIP2;1 and SoPIP2;1 is distinct from that in the corresponding positions (G87, I126, L225, and T231) of the H2O2 channel AtPIP1;4 (Tian et al., 2016). AtPIP1;4 is the same length as OsPIP2;1, but possesses six more residues than SoPIP2;1, with a predicted Ar/R SF comprising F95, H224, T231, and R239 (Figure 3B). If the SF extension permits AQPs to mediate H2O2 transport, the degree of the SF extension must be considerably higher than that in the NH3 transport channel (Kirscht et al., 2016).
Three issues are considered to infer the structural basis of the function of PIPs in H2O2 transport between the outside and inside of plant cells. First, the apocytoplastic transport of H2O2 is more intricate as compared to the signal shift ways by the cell-to-cell traveling via plasmodesmata (Wang et al., 2009) and via vesicle-aided trafficking between organelles through the ER system within the cell interior (Ashtamker et al., 2007; Melo et al., 2017). Second, H2O2 transport in and out of plant cells is not constant throughout the life circle of plants (Dynowski et al., 2008; Tian et al., 2016). Third, H2O2 trafficking across the PM is induced but is not constitutive, and occurs only when apoplastic H2O2 is generated in response to pathogens, microbial patterns, or environmental signals (Levine et al., 1994; Xin et al., 2015; Liu and He, 2016; Tian et al., 2016).
Plasma membrane sensing of these distinct signals will promote H2O2 generation in apoplasts and its immediate translocation into the cytoplasm (Ausubel, 2005; Ashtamker et al., 2007; Tian et al., 2016) by three possible mechanisms. One is inductivity (Figure 3A). When plants are infected by a pathogen or respond to a microbial pattern, such as Hpa1 or flg22, the enzymatic activity of NOX is induced to catalyze the generation of H2O2 by peroxidation and superoxidation in PMs (Tian et al., 2016; Smirnoff and Arnaud, 2019). The generated H2O2 accumulates, and the concentration increases temporarily in the apoplast. This creates a gradient from the outside to the inside of the cell (Tian et al., 2016), and induces the PIP channel to function (Tian et al., 2016).
The second mechanism is speculated to be the combination of factors (Figure 3C) found in SoPIP2;1 (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2010), Aqy1 (Eriksson et al., 2013), and AtTIP2;1 (Kirscht et al., 2016). Combined factors facilitate the passage of H2O2 through the PIP channel, which could be established by SF extension (Kirscht et al., 2016), and optimized by amino acid protonation (Eriksson et al., 2013). H2O2 generation (2O2– + 2H+ = H2O2) requires protons, and may reduce the likelihood that amino acid residues near the SF and NPA regions are protonated. As the protonation navigates H2O movement along the channel (Eriksson et al., 2013), decreased protonation will disturb H2O transport. This might promotes the transport of H2O2 over H2O through a PIP channel once a sufficient diameter is reached (>3.70 Å).
The third mechanism is supposed to be biochemical responses (Figure 3C) associated with the regulation of PM remodeling – injury and repair (Laliberté and Sanfaçon, 2010; Santi-Rocca and Blanchard, 2017). PM remodeling is triggered by the binding of an active extrinsic protein, including microbial patterns such as Hpa1 (Li et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2016), bacterial T3 translocators such as HrpF (Büttner et al., 2002; Li et al., 2011), and bacterial effectors (Hubber and Roy, 2010; Domingues et al., 2016; Dong et al., 2016). Binding of these bioactive proteins affects the PM integrity (Ji and Dong, 2015a; Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016). Reduced PM integrity is advantageous for solute influx, which, however, is strictly regulated by proteins and lipids that recognize microbial patterns, T3 effectors, or translocators (Gilbert et al., 2014).
The former two mechanisms may synergize in the gating and trafficking regulation, requiring AtPIP1;4 to transport H2O2 in plants grown under regular conditions without any input signal, except for externally applied H2O2 or H2O2 induced by a pathogen or a microbial pattern (Tian et al., 2016). The third mechanism may occur in the presence of Hpa1 following application to plants or production in transgenic plants, in which AtPIP1;4 interacts with Hpa1 (Li et al., 2015) to increase the substrate transport function. Studies should aim to verify this hypothesis in order to elucidate the structures of PIP orthologs as transport channels for H2O2 or different substrates.
Conclusion and Perspectives
Finite research performed on these case studies is based on a solid foundation obtained through extensive studies; research on the structural regulation of PIP function in plant infection and immunity is invited. The first case study on Hpa1-mediated, OsPIP1;3-associated, and virulence-relevant PthXo1 translocation offers multiple experimental avenues to characterize interactions between T3 translocators and their receptors at target PMs, as well as the associated implications for effector translocation and virulence. The two subjects discussed here are yet to be thoroughly studied. First, which of the assumed delivery lanes is used by different effectors is a long-standing question for all plant-pathogenic bacteria. Xoo possesses more than 30 effectors secreted by the T3 system (White et al., 2009), similar to the number in other bacteria. Further study is needed to identify all T3 effectors in the three proposed mechanisms: translocon-independent pore formation (Figure 1), endocytosis with PM protein or lipid trafficking (Figures 1, 2), and translocon-dependent delivery (Figure 1). The second subject includes the contribution of PM lipids and proteins to T3 effector translocation. T3 translocon assembly or pore formation must recruit both lipids and proteins situated in plant PMs (Büttner et al., 2008; Gilbert et al., 2014; Heilmann and Heilmann, 2015; Ji and Dong, 2015b; Guignot and Tran Van Nhieu, 2016). It would be of great interest to determine how effectors are internalized with PM protein or lipid trafficking, and how protein and lipid receptors of T3 translocators coordinate their actions to generate pores or translocons in plant PMs.
The second case study discusses AtPIP1;4-regulated, Hpa1-promoted, and immunity-linked H2O2 transport, and establishes a cytological connection between the generation and function of H2O2 in the apoplast and cytoplasm, respectively (Tian et al., 2016). The cytoplasmic import of H2O2 bridges a physical gap, which was unknown for at least 20 years since the biphasic H2O2 accumulation following induction was awarded biological significance (Levine et al., 1994). AtPIP1;4-mediated H2O2 translocation is a pivotal step in apocytoplastic signal transduction for intracellular immunity pathways, which regulate SAR and PTI responses, leading to plant resistance against diseases (Dong et al., 1999; Chen et al., 2008a, b; Choi et al., 2013; Zhao et al., 2014). The future focus of studies will be difficult, highlighting the regulation of gating and trafficking of the AtPIP1;4 channel for H2O2 transport. To date, the structures of AQP channels have only been determined for the transport of NH (Kirscht et al., 2016) and H2O (Daniels et al., 1999; Fotiadis et al., 2001; Kukulski et al., 2005; Kreida and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015), and almost 20 substrates remain to be understood (Laloux et al., 2018). Rational hypotheses on structural themes in both gating and trafficking (Kreida and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015) requires the efforts of researchers to explore structural mechanisms that govern diverse AQP channels. It is necessary to dissect the conformation of AtPIP1;4 (Figures 3B,C) involved in H2O2 transport in response pathogens or patterns (Figure 3A). It is especially necessary to study whether the H2O2 transport is facilitated by combined impetuses, including the SF extension, amino acid residue interactions (Figure 3C), and PM protein trafficking (Figure 2).
The two case studies have been designed to converge at the intersection Hpa1-PIP cooperation and branch into two directions. One targets plant immunity, for which Hpa1 functions as a bacterial pattern in a pathogen-independent manner. The other contributes to plant infection, in which Hpa1 acts as a T3 translocator after secretion by the bacteria, and mediates the translocation of virulent effectors that lead to disease. These findings provide insight into disease control either through induced immunity, or the prevention of bacteria from usurping the substrate transport gate. Practical application of both strategies to strengthen crop protection (Krinke et al., 2007; Chen et al., 2008b; Fu et al., 2014; Wang D. et al., 2014; Li et al., 2019) will integrate with crop involvement by using AQPs from plants themselves (Ruiz-Lozano and Aroca, 2017; Balestrini et al., 2018) and from symbiotic microbes as well (Kikuchi et al., 2016; Desaki et al., 2018).
Author Contributions
LZ, LC, and HD drafted the manuscript. LZ predicted the 3D structure of AtPIP1;4. HD finalized the manuscript.
Funding
This study was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31772247) and China National Key Research and Development Plan (Grant No. 2017YFD0200901) to HD and Talent Recruitment Funding of Shandong Agricultural University (Grant No. 20171226) to HD, LC, and LZ.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
We thank Mr. Hao Wang (doctoral student in the laboratory) for his advice in the structural analysis.
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Keywords: aquaporin, plasma membrane intrinsic protein, H2O2 transport, immunity signaling, translocon, type III effectors
Citation: Zhang L, Chen L and Dong H (2019) Plant Aquaporins in Infection by and Immunity Against Pathogens – A Critical Review. Front. Plant Sci. 10:632. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00632
Received: 08 January 2019; Accepted: 26 April 2019;
Published: 28 May 2019.
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Valentina Fiorilli, University of Turin, ItalyReviewed by:
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