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. 2021 Apr 19;33(7):2116–2130. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab109

Table 1.

Overview of strategies employed by microbes to evade MAMP recognition in plants

Microbe MAMP or MAMP precursor Microbial protein Plant host Host target (PRR) References
Level 1: Preventing MAMP production
Strategy 1: Polymorphisms in protein MAMPs
Bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens flg22 N/A Arabidopsis (FLS2) Felix et al. (1999)
Ralstonia solanacearum Arabidopsis Pfund et al. (2004); Wei et al. (2018)
Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris Arabidopsis Sun et al. (2006)
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. and pv. oryzicola rice Wang et al. (2015)
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis Juglans regia Cesbron et al. (2015)
Sinorhizobium meliloti tomato, rice Felix et al. (1999)
Burkholderia phytofirmans grapevine Trdá et al. (2014)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato Col338 flgII-28 tomato (FLS3) Cai et al. (2011)
Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato elf18 N/A Arabidopsis (EFR) Lacombe et al. (2010)
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae RaxX N/A rice (Xa21) Pruitt et al. (2015)
Strategy 2: Polymorphisms in glycan MAMPs
Fungi Verticillium dahliae Chitin VdPDA1 cotton (CERK1) Gao et al. (2019)
Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Pst13661 wheat Xu et al. (2020)
Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici N/A wheat El Gueddari et al. (2002)
Uromyces fabae N/A broad bean
Colletotrichum graminicola N/A maize
Pestalotiopsis sp. PesCDA rice Cord-Landwehr et al. (2016)
Strategy 3: Downregulating MAMP production
Bacteria Pseudomonas Flagellin cdG N/A (FLS2) Hickman and Harwood (2008)
Pseudomonas syringae

N. benthamiana

and Arabidopsis

Pfeilmeier et al. (2016)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas fluorescens
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato AlgU N. benthamiana Bao et al. (2020)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a fliC bean Yu et al. (2013)
Fungi Colletotrichum graminicola β-glucan KRE5 and KRE6 maize N/A Oliveira‐Garcia and Deising (2016)
Strategy 4: Hiding MAMP precursors with proteins
Fungi Cladosporium fulvum Chitin Avr4 tomato (CERK1) Van den Burg et al. (2006)
Verticillium nonalfalfae VnaChtBP hop (Humulus lupulus L.)  Volk et al. (2019)
Verticillium dahliae strain VdLs17 Vd2LysM tomato Kombrink et al. (2017)
Colletotrichum higginsianum ChELP1 and ChELP2 monocot and dicot crops Takahara et al. (2016)
Parastagonospora nodorum SnTox1 wheat Liu et al. (2016)
Clonostachys rosea Cell wall LysM1 and LysM2 wheat Dubey et al. (2020)
Serendipita indica β-glucan FGB1 Arabidopsis, barley, and N. benthamiana Wawra et al. (2016)
Strategy 5: Shielding MAMP precursors with glycans
Bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 6605 Flagellin

flagellin

glycan

tobacco N/A Taguchi et al. (2006)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea race 4 soybean Takeuchi et al. (2003)
Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris XcA cabbage Ichinose et al. (2013)
Acidovorax avenae K1 strain rice Hirai et al. (2011)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a N. benthamiana Buscaill et al. (2019)
Xylella fastidiosa LPS LPS glycan grapevine N/A Rapicavoli et al. (2018)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a bean Helmann et al. (2019)
Fungi Magnaporthe oryzae Chitin α-1,3-glucan rice N/A Fujikawa et al. (2009)
Cochlioborus miyabeanus Fujikawa et al. (2012)
Rhizoctonia solani
Strategy 6: Blocking MAMP release by inhibiting the activity of host hydrolases
Oomycete Phytophthora sojae β-glucan GIP1 soybean EGaseA Rose et al. (2002)
Phytophthora infestans GIPs tomato EGases Damasceno et al. (2008)
Phytophthora infestans PC2 EPIs tomato P69B Wang et al. (2021)
Bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato Flagellin galactosyrin N. benthamiana

BGAL1

(FLS2)

Buscaill et al. (2019)
Strategy 7: Disintegrating host-derived hydrolases
Fungi Verticillium dahlia Chitin SSEP1 cotton Chi28 Han et al. (2019)
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici FoMep1/Sep1 tomato Chi1 and Chi13 Jashni et al. (2015)
Fusarium verticillioides fungalysin maize ChitA and ChitB Naumann et al. (2011)
Colletotrichum graminicola Cgfl maize chitinases Sanz‐Martín et al. (2016)
Colletotrichum cinereus fungalysin N/A N/A Lilly et al. (2008)
Ustilago maydis UmFly1 maize ZmChiA Ökmen et al. (2018)
Level 3: Preventing MAMP perception
Strategy 8: Degrading MAMPs
Bacteria

Pseudomonas aeruginosa and

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato

Flagellin/flg22 AprA Arabidopsis (FLS2) Bardoel et al. (2011)
Fungi Podosphaera xanthii Chitin EWCAs melon (CERK1) Martínez-Cruz et al. (2021)
Strategy 9: Sequestering released MAMPs
Fungi Cladosporium fulvum Chitin Ecp6 tomato (CERK1) De Jonge et al. (2010)
Mycosphaerella graminicola Mg3LysM wheat Marshall et al. (2011)
Magnaporthe oryzae Slp1 rice Mentlak et al. (2012)
Verticillium dahliae strain VdLs17 Vd2LysM tomato Kombrink et al. (2017)
Colletotrichum higginsianum ChELP1 and ChELP2 monocot and dicot crops Takahara et al. (2016)
Rhizoctonia solani RsLysM sugar beet Dölfors et al. (2019)
Trichoderma atroviride Tal6 Arabidopsis and tomato Romero-Contreras et al. (2019)
Rhizophagus irregularis RiSLM Medicago truncatula Zeng et al. (2020)
Moniliophthora perniciosa MpChi cacao Fiorin et al. (2018)
Magnaporthe oryzae MoChia1 rice Yang et al. (2019)
Bacteria Bacillus subtilis Flagellin BSn5 Arabidopsis and voodoo lily (FLS2) Deng et al. (2019)

See Supplemental Data Set S1 for a version of this table in excel format.

N/A, nonapplicable.