Shane Horsefield, Hayden Burdett, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Mohammad K Manik, Yun Shi, Jian Chen, Tiancong Qi, Jonathan Gilley, Jhih-Siang Lai, Maxwell X Rank, Lachlan W Casey, Weixi Gu, Daniel J Ericsson, Gabriel Foley, Robert O Hughes, Todd Bosanac, Mark von Itzstein, John P Rathjen, Jeffrey D Nanson, Mikael Boden, Ian B Dry, Simon J Williams, Brian J Staskawicz, Michael P Coleman, Thomas Ve, Peter N Dodds, Bostjan Kobe
SARM1 (sterile alpha and TIR motif containing 1) is responsible for depletion of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in its oxidized form (NAD+ ) during Wallerian degeneration associated with neuropathies. Plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors recognize pathogen effector proteins and trigger localized cell death to restrict pathogen infection. Both processes depend on closely related Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains in these proteins, which, as we show, feature self-association-dependent NAD+ cleavage activity associated with cell death signaling...
August 23, 2019: Science