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. 2019 May 22;10:646. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00646

Table 1.

Identified DAMPs in plants.

Category DAMP Molecular structure or epitope Source or precursor Receptor or signaling regulator Plant References
Epidermis cuticle Cutin monomers C16 and C18 hydroxy and epoxy fatty acids Epidermis cuticle Unknown Arabidopsis thaliana, Solanum lycopersicum Fauth et al., 1998; Buxdorf et al., 2014
Cell wall polysaccharide fragments or degrading products OGs Polymers of 10–15 α-1-4-linked GalAs Cell wall pectin WAK1 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, G. max, N. tabacum Norman et al., 1999; Bellincampi et al., 2000; Ferrari et al., 2007; Brutus et al., 2010; Galletti et al., 2011
Cellooligomers Polymers of 2-7 β-1,4-linked glucoses Cell wall cellulose Unknown A. thaliana Souza et al., 2017; Johnson et al., 2018
Xyloglucan oligosaccharides Polymers of β-1,4-linked glucose with xylose, galactose, and fructose side chains Cell wall hemicellulose Unknown A. thaliana, Vitis vinifera Claverie et al., 2018
Methanol Methanol Cell wall pectin Unknown A. thaliana, Nicotiana tabacum Dixit et al., 2013; Hann et al., 2014; Tran et al., 2018
Apoplastic peptides and proteins CAPE1 11-aa peptide Apoplastic PR1 Unknown A. thaliana, S. lycopersicum Chen et al., 2014
GmSUBPEP 12-aa peptide Apoplastic subtilase Unknown Glycine max Pearce et al., 2010a
GRIp 11-aa peptide Cytosolic GRI PRK5 A. thaliana Wrzaczek et al., 2009, 2015
Systemin 18-aa peptide (S. lycopersicum) Cytosolic prosystemin SYR1/2 (S. lycopersicum) Some Solanaceae species Pearce et al., 1991; Wang et al., 2018
HypSys 15-, 18-, or 20-aa peptides Apoplastic or cytoplasmic preproHypSys Unknown Some Solanaceae species Pearce et al., 2001a; Pearce and Ryan, 2003; Pearce, 2011
Peps 23∼36-aa peptides (A. thaliana) Cytosolic and vacuolar PROPEPs PEPR1/2 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, Zea mays, S. lycopersicum, Oryza sativa Huffaker et al., 2006; Yamaguchi et al., 2006, 2010; Krol et al., 2010; Bartels et al., 2013; Hander et al., 2019
PIP1/2 11-aa peptides Apoplastic preproPIP1/2 RLK7 A. thaliana Hou et al., 2014
GmPep914/890 8-aa peptide Apoplastic or cytoplasmic GmproPep914/890 Unknown G. max Yamaguchi et al., 2011
Zip1 17-aa peptide Apoplastic PROZIP1 Unknown Z. mays Ziemann et al., 2018
IDL6p 11-aa peptide Apoplastic or cytoplasmic IDL6 precursors HEA/HSL2 A. thaliana Wang X. et al., 2017
RALFs ∼50-aa cysteine-rich peptides Apoplastic or cytoplasmic RALF precursors FER (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, N. tabacum, S. lycopersicum Haruta et al., 2014; Stegmann et al., 2017
PSKs 5-aa peptides Apoplastic or cytoplasmic PSK precursors PSKR1/2 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, S. lycopersicum Igarashi et al., 2012; Mosher et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2018
HMGB3 HMGB3 protein Cytosolic and nuclear HMGB3 Unknown A. thaliana Choi H.W. et al., 2016
Inceptin 11-aa peptide Chloroplastic ATP synthase γ-subunit Unknown Vigna unguiculata Schmelz et al., 2006
Extracellular nucleotides eATP ATP Cytosolic ATP DORN1/P2K1 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, N. tabacum Chivasa et al., 2009; Choi et al., 2014a
eNAD(P) NAD(P) Cytosolic NAD(P) LecRK-I.8 A. thaliana Wang C. et al., 2017
eDNA DNA fragments < 700 bp in length Cytosolic and nuclear DNA Unknown Phaseolus vulgaris, P. lunatus, Pisum sativum, Z. mays Wen et al., 2009; Duran-Flores and Heil, 2014, 2018; Barbero et al., 2016
Extracellular sugars Extracellular sugars Sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose Cytosolic sugars RGS1 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, N. tabacum, Solanum tuberosum Johnson and Ryan, 1990; Solfanelli et al., 2006; Guo et al., 2011; Bolouri Moghaddam and Van den Ende, 2012; Miao et al., 2013; Li et al., 2014
Extracellular amino acids and glutathione Proteinogenic amino acids Glutamate, cysteine, histidine, aspartic acid Cytosolic amino acids GLR3.3/3.6 or others (A. thaliana) A. thaliana, S. lycopersicum, Oryza sativa Qi et al., 2006; Li et al., 2013; Kadotani et al., 2016; Seo et al., 2016; Toyota et al., 2018
Glutathione Glutathione Cytosolic glutathione GLR3.3/3.6 (A. thaliana) A. thaliana Li et al., 2013