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Prost, I.; Dhondt, S.; Rothe, G.; Vicente, J.; Rodriguez, M. J.; Kift, N.; Carbonne, F.; Griffiths, G.; Esquerré-Tugayé, M.-T.; Rosahl, S.; Castresana, C.; Hamberg, M.; Fournier, J.; Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activities of Plant Oxylipins Supports Their Involvement in Defense against Pathogens Plant Physiol. 139, 1902-1913, (2005) DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.066274

Plant oxylipins are a large family of metabolites derived from polyunsaturated fatty acids. The characterization of mutants or transgenic plants affected in the biosynthesis or perception of oxylipins has recently emphasized the role of the so-called oxylipin pathway in plant defense against pests and pathogens. In this context, presumed functions of oxylipins include direct antimicrobial effect, stimulation of plant defense gene expression, and regulation of plant cell death. However, the precise contribution of individual oxylipins to plant defense remains essentially unknown. To get a better insight into the biological activities of oxylipins, in vitro growth inhibition assays were used to investigate the direct antimicrobial activities of 43 natural oxylipins against a set of 13 plant pathogenic microorganisms including bacteria, oomycetes, and fungi. This study showed unequivocally that most oxylipins are able to impair growth of some plant microbial pathogens, with only two out of 43 oxylipins being completely inactive against all the tested organisms, and 26 oxylipins showing inhibitory activity toward at least three different microbes. Six oxylipins strongly inhibited mycelial growth and spore germination of eukaryotic microbes, including compounds that had not previously been ascribed an antimicrobial activity, such as 13-keto-9(Z),11(E),15(Z)-octadecatrienoic acid and 12-oxo-10,15(Z)-phytodienoic acid. Interestingly, this first large-scale comparative assessment of the antimicrobial effects of oxylipins reveals that regulators of plant defense responses are also the most active oxylipins against eukaryotic microorganisms, suggesting that such oxylipins might contribute to plant defense through their effects both on the plant and on pathogens, possibly through related mechanisms.
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Göbel, C.; Feussner, I.; Hamberg, M.; Rosahl, S.; Oxylipin profiling in pathogen-infected potato leaves BBA-Mol. Cell Biol. Lipids 1584, 55-64, (2002) DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(02)00268-8

Plants respond to pathogen attack with a multicomponent defense response. Synthesis of oxylipins via the lipoxygenase (LOX) pathway appears to be an important factor for establishment of resistance in a number of pathosystems. In potato cells, pathogen-derived elicitors preferentially stimulate the 9-LOX-dependent metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Here we show by oxylipin profiling that potato plants react to pathogen infection with increases in the amounts of the 9-LOX-derived 9,10,11- and 9,12,13-trihydroxy derivatives of linolenic acid (LnA), the divinyl ethers colnelenic acid (CnA) and colneleic acid (CA) as well as 9-hydroxy linolenic acid. Accumulation of these compounds is faster and more pronounced during the interaction of potato with the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola, which does not lead to disease, compared to the infection of potato with Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight disease. Jasmonic acid (JA), a 13-LOX-derived oxylipin, accumulates in potato leaves after infiltration with P. syringae pv. maculicola, but not after infection with P. infestans.
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Göbel, C.; Feussner, I.; Schmidt, A.; Scheel, D.; Sanchez-Serrano, J.; Hamberg, M.; Rosahl, S.; Oxylipin Profiling Reveals the Preferential Stimulation of the 9-Lipoxygenase Pathway in Elicitor-treated Potato Cells J. Biol. Chem. 276, 6267-6273, (2001) DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M008606200

Lipoxygenases are key enzymes in the synthesis of oxylipins and play an important role in the response of plants to wounding and pathogen attack. In cultured potato cells treated with elicitor from Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight disease, transcripts encoding a linoleate 9-lipoxygenase and a linoleate 13-lipoxygenase accumulate. However, lipoxygenase activity assays and oxylipin profiling revealed only increased 9-lipoxygenase activity and formation of products derived therefrom, such as 9-hydroxy octadecadienoic acid and colneleic acid. Furthermore, the 9-lipoxygenase products 9(S),10(S),11(R)-trihydroxy-12(Z)-octadecenoic and 9(S),10(S),11(R)-trihydroxy-12(Z),15(Z)-octadecadienoic acid were identified as novel, elicitor-inducible oxylipins in potato, suggesting a role of these compounds in the defense response against pathogen attack. Neither 13-lipoxygenase activity nor 13-lipoxygenase products were detected in higher amounts in potato cells after elicitation. Thus, formation of products by the 9-lipoxygenase pathway, including the enzymes hydroperoxide reductase, divinyl ether synthase, and epoxy alcohol synthase, is preferentially stimulated in cultured potato cells in response to treatment with P. infestanselicitor. Moreover, elicitor-induced accumulation of desaturase transcripts and increased phospholipase A2 activity after elicitor treatment suggest that substrates for the lipoxygenase pathway might be provided by de novo synthesis and subsequent release from lipids of the endomembrane system.
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