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Soil-borne fungi alter the apoplastic purinergic signaling in plants by deregulating the homeostasis of extracellular ATP and its metabolite adenosine

  1. Christopher Kesten
  2. Valentin Leitner
  3. Susanne Dora
  4. James W Sims
  5. Julian Dindas
  6. Cyril Zipfel
  7. Consuelo M De Moraes
  8. Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez  Is a corresponding author
  1. Department of Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Switzerland
  2. Department for Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  3. Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  4. Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  5. Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) – Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Spain
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  1. Christopher Kesten
  2. Valentin Leitner
  3. Susanne Dora
  4. James W Sims
  5. Julian Dindas
  6. Cyril Zipfel
  7. Consuelo M De Moraes
  8. Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez
(2023)
Soil-borne fungi alter the apoplastic purinergic signaling in plants by deregulating the homeostasis of extracellular ATP and its metabolite adenosine
eLife 12:e92913.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92913
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Abstract

Purinergic signaling activated by extracellular nucleotides and their derivative nucleosides trigger sophisticated signaling networks. The outcome of these pathways determine the capacity of the organism to survive under challenging conditions. Both extracellular ATP (eATP) and Adenosine (eAdo) act as primary messengers in mammals, essential for immunosuppressive responses. Despite the clear role of eATP as a plant damage-associated molecular pattern, the function of its nucleoside, eAdo, and of the eAdo/eATP balance in plant stress response remain to be fully elucidated. This is particularly relevant in the context of plant-microbe interaction, where the intruder manipulates the extracellular matrix. Here, we identify Ado as a main molecule secreted by the vascular fungus Fusarium oxysporum. We show that eAdo modulates the plant’s susceptibility to fungal colonization by altering the eATP-mediated apoplastic pH homeostasis, an essential physiological player during the infection of this pathogen. Our work indicates that plant pathogens actively imbalance the apoplastic eAdo/eATP levels as a virulence mechanism.

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This important paper reports how a fungal pathogen utilizes adenosine to perturb plant disease resistance and immune signaling. The authors convincingly show a key role of Ado/eATP in the alteration of apoplastic pH and pathogenesis. The research presented provides a foundation for the study of extracellular adenosine on purinergic signaling during plant-pathogen interactions.

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Introduction

Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) constitutes the energy currency of all living organisms and is the driving force of many cellular processes. In addition, it fulfills a broad range of tasks in signaling mechanisms once it leaves the cytosol and becomes extracellular (eATP). In plants, eATP contributes to root hair growth, gravitropism, cell death, and to response to abiotic and biotic stresses (Roux and Steinebrunner, 2007; Chen et al., 2017; Tanaka et al., 2014; Choi et al., 2014a). ATP reaches the apoplast through transporters (Thomas et al., 2000; Rieder and Neuhaus, 2011) and secretory vesicles (Kim et al., 2006). Since eATP is involved in a broad selection of signaling processes, tight controlling mechanisms are required to regulate its concentration. These comprise apoplast facing apyrases and purple acid phosphatases that hydrolyze eATP to adenosine monophosphate (AMP; Zrenner et al., 2006; Deng et al., 2015). AMP is subsequently hydrolyzed by 5’ nucleotidases (5’NT) to extracellular adenosine (eAdo; Zrenner et al., 2006) that is either taken up into to cytoplasm by the Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 3 (ENT3; Traub et al., 2007), or further processed by the extracellular protein Nucleoside hydrolase 3 (NSH3; Jung et al., 2011). NSH3 removes the sugar moiety of eAdo and generates adenine (Ade), which is transported into the cytoplast by a purine permease transporter (PUP; Möhlmann et al., 2014).

Mechanical wounding of the plasma membrane leads to a high release of ATP to the apoplast (Tanaka et al., 2014), increasing eATP concentration up to 80 nM (Dark et al., 2011), which is sufficient to activate the purinoreceptor Does not respond to nucleotides 1 (P2K1/DORN1) also known as the LecRK‐I.9 (lectin receptor kinase I.9; Kd ~46 nM; Choi et al., 2014a). Perception of eATP by DORN1/LecRK‐I.9 induces cellular responses including increase of cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentrations and of reactive oxygen species (ROS), activation of MAPK cascades by phosphorylation, and transcriptional reprogramming (Cao et al., 2014). Indeed, 60% of genes differentially regulated after application of exogenous ATP are differentially expressed during wounding processes (Choi et al., 2014a). The role of eATP as a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) is supported by the susceptibility of dorn1 mutants to different pathogens and their lower response to a beneficial endophyte (Balagué et al., 2017; Nizam et al., 2019; Jewell et al., 2022).

In mammals, Ado is also recognized as a primary messenger, being a key signal of immunosuppressive responses after being perceived by G-protein-coupled receptors (Antonioli et al., 2014; Antonioli et al., 2019). In plants, Arabidopsis ent3nsh3 double mutant, affected in the Ado/ATP ratio at the apoplast, showed increased susceptibility to the necrotroph ascomycete Botrytis cinerea, connected to an attenuation of the upregulation of defense-related genes (Song et al., 2006; Daumann et al., 2015). In addition, the beneficial root fungal endophyte Serendipita indica secretes ecto-5’-nucleotidases (E5’NT) that, like plant 5’NTs, are capable of hydrolyzing eATP and thereby shifting the equilibrium in the apoplast from eATP to eAdo (Nizam et al., 2019). Together, these data suggest that the eATP/eAdo balance is relevant for fungal infection and that microbes might manipulate the apoplastic Ado levels in its favor, as they do with the apoplastic pH (pHapo) (Felle, 2001; Masachis et al., 2016; Kesten et al., 2019). However, the roles of eAdo and of the eATP/eAdo equilibrium in plant defense remain poorly understood.

Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) is one of the plant pathogenic fungi whose capacity to induce pHapo changes is best studied (Masachis et al., 2016; Kesten et al., 2019). As a microbe that mainly grows and advances through the apoplast, it represents an excellent model system to study plant-microbe molecular communication in this plant region. We thus made use of an elicitor mix, a crude mycelia extract of a lyophilized Arabidopsis pathogen Fo5176 suspension. This extract led to rapid and local alterations of the pHapo and cellulose synthesis machinery similar to those observed by the fungal hyphae (Kesten et al., 2019). Through fractionation followed by HPLC purification of the elicitor mix, we identified Ado as an abundant and active molecule in the Fo5176 elicitor mix. Our data indicate that Fo5176 increases the levels of eAdo in the apoplast to facilitate its growth in the host. Genetic, transcriptomic, and live-cell high-resolution microscopy approaches revealed that Ado alters ATP-induced plant defense responses.

Results

Fo5176 secretes Ado that seems to counteract eATP-induced plant defense

We recently showed that a Fo5176 elicitor mix regulates the growth-defense balance in plants (Kesten et al., 2019). To identify the molecules in the elicitor mix involved in this response, we performed a bioassay-guided fractionation, using a C18 solid phase cartridge with a 10% step gradient of a water:methanol solvent system followed by HPLC on a semiprep C18 column. This approach yielded a purified active component that we identified as adenosine (Ado) by standard 1D and 2D NMR (Table 1) and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Comparison of its retention time and mass data to a pure commercial standard, confirmed that Ado is a main component of elicitor mixes generated from in vitro-grown Fo5176 (Figure 1A ). We then asked whether the fungus secretes this potential new elicitor during plant infection. As the plant or fungal origin of the extracellular Ado (eAdo) present in the host apoplast cannot be distinguished, we tested the expression of genes required for hydrolysis and secretion of eAdo, ENT, and 5’NT, respectively, in the host and the intruder during their interaction. Both FoENT and Fo5’NT were significantly upregulated during root colonization (Figure 1B and C), while the expression of the Arabidopsis’ homologs was not altered by the presence of the fungus (Figure 1—figure supplement 1). These data are supported by the identification of Fo5’NT protein (g8638) in the secretome of Fo5176-infected roots of hydroponically grown Col-0 plants (Gámez-Arjona et al., 2022), indicating that Fo5176 might indeed secrete Ado to the apoplast while colonizing plant roots.

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Enhanced apoplastic Ado counteracts eATP-induced reduction of fungal penetration on root vasculature.

(A) Overlayed LC-MS extracted ion chromatograms of blank (red), adenosine (green), plant and fungus (blue).Overlayed LC-MS extracted ion chromatogram of blank (black), 250 ng adenosine (blue), fungi (red), plant (gray), plant and fungi (green) (B) and (C) Fo5’NT (B) and FoENT (C) expression relative to FoTub in hydroponically-grown Arabidopsis roots at various days post treatment (dpt) with Fo spores. Values are mean ± SEM, N≥20, Welch’s unpaired t-test: (B) 1 dpt vs. 4 dpt: * p-value ≤0.05, 1 dpt vs. 6 dpt: ** p-value ≤0.01; (C) 1 dpt vs. 6 dpt: * p-value ≤0.05. (D) Cumulative Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP root vascular penetrations in wild-type (Col-0) seedlings at different days post-transfer to plates containing ½ MS (control) and 1 mM Ado and/or 0.5 mM ATP. Values are mean ± SEM, N≥52 from three independent experiments. RM two-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test on control vs. 0.5 mM ATP: p≤0.001 (treatment), p≤0.001 (time), p≤0.0001 (treatment x time). Significant differences compared to control (black asterisk) and 500 µM ATP (blue asterisks) at 7 dpt are indicated on the graph (Tukey test); statistics of remaining time points are summarized in Supplementary file 2. (E) Representative images of Col-0 seedlings at 7 dpt to mock (left) or Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP (right) plates. Scale bar = 1 cm. (F) Root growth of plants as shown in (E) at different days post transfer to mock or Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP-containing plates. Values are mean ± SEM, N≥52 roots from three independent experiments, RM two-way ANOVA p (treatment, time, treatment x time): control vs 500 µM ATP (≤0.0001, ≤0.0001, ≤0.0001); control vs 500 µM ATP +1 mM Ado (≤0.0001, ≤0.0001, ≤0.0001); control infected vs 500 µM ATP infected (≤0.0001, ≤0.0001, ≤0.001); control infected vs 500 µM ATP +1 mM Ado-infected (≤0.0001, ≤0.0001, ≤0.0001). (G) Colony diameters of Fo5176 grown for 4 days on plates containing ½ MS (control) and 1 mM Ado and/or 0.5 mM ATP. Values are mean ± SEM, N=4, Welch’s unpaired t-test control vs 0.5 mM ATP: **** p-value ≤0.0001; control vs. 0.5 mM ATP +1 mM Ado: **** p-value ≤0.0001. Scale bar = 1 cm.

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Enhanced apoplastic Ado counteracts eATP-induced reduction of fungal penetration on root vasculature.

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Table 1
NMR data of Ado.The chemical shifts of 1H and 13C found in Ado. Blanks are heteroatoms in the main chain. Selected COSY and HMBC correlations are included to demonstrate linkage.
Atomδ13Cδ1HHMBCCOSY
1
2152.41H 8.13 (s)4, 6
3
4149.1-
5119.1-
6156.1-
7
8139.71H 8.34 (s)4, 5
9
1'90.81H 5.95 (d, J=3.9Hz)4, 8, 2'2'
2'81.11H 4.52 (dd, J=6.3, 3.9 Hz)1', 3'
3'77.11H 4.22 (dd J=6.3, 3.8 Hz)2', 4'
4'87.71H 3.93 (q J=3.8 Hz)3', 5'
5'62.41H 3.61 (m), 1H 3.50 (m)5', 4'

Considering the biochemical relation between Ado and ATP and the reported role of eATP in plant immunity (Chen et al., 2017; Cao et al., 2014; Kumar et al., 2020), we tested the putative influence of eAdo on ATP-induced plant defense. Thus, we first investigated if the plant response to Fo5176 is eATP-dependent by exposing the plants to different concentrations of ATP (10 µM to 500 µM) while infected by Fo5176, as described previously (Kesten et al., 2019; Huerta et al., 2020). Indeed, 300–500 µM ATP significantly reduced Fo5176 vascular colonization (Figure 1—figure supplement 2). To assess the effect of eAdo on ATP-induced plant defense, we exposed the roots to 500 µM ATP and Ado in equimolar to doubled concentrations of ATP (Figure 1—figure supplement 2). Plants treated with 1 mM Ado and 500 µM eATP were indistinguishable from control plants regarding vascular penetrations by Fo5176 (Figure 1D and S2B). Ado on its own did not have any detectable effect on fungal vascular penetration under our experimental conditions, indicating that Ado plays an important role in the plant eATP signaling regulation (Figure 1D). Importantly, eATP-induced root and fungal growth inhibition was not recovered by the addition of Ado (Figure 1E–G). These results indicate that the plant response to Ado is ATP-dependent and implicate a mechanism in which eAdo interferes with eATP-induced plant defense responses that is not based on plant- or fungal-growth retardation.

Plants impaired in ATP sensing or with high eAdo/eATP levels are more susceptible to Fo5176

To further test the role of Fo-secreted Ado (Figure 1A–C) interfering with eATP during plant-pathogen interaction, we aimed at creating fungal mutants lacking FoE5’NT and FoENT. Although more than 165 potential transformants showed successful insertion of the resistance cassette into the fungal genome, none of them were knock-out mutants of the target genes, that is the cassette was inserted off-target. This indicates the importance of these genes for fungal viability and the very possible lethality of FoΔE5’NT and FoΔENT mutants. As manipulating the fungal eAdo levels was not successful, we addressed the influence of eAdo/eATP on plant-pathogen interactions from the plant’s side using an Arabidopsis mutant altered in this ratio (ent3nsh3) (Daumann et al., 2015) or eATP sensing (dorn1) (Choi et al., 2014a). Double mutant ent3nsh3 plants showed an increased susceptibility to fungal colonization, while the single mutant ent3 was not significantly affected in its response to the pathogen (Figure 2A). Lack of DORN1 caused an increased fungal vascular penetration rate (Figure 2A), underlining the role of eATP as a DAMP in Arabidopsis-Fo5176 interaction and confirming previous data (Kumar et al., 2020). Compared to Fo5176-treated WT, dorn1 and ent3 plants showed significantly increased primary root growth over time, while ent3nsh3 did not differ substantially from WT, despite its higher infection numbers (Figure 2B and C). These data indicate that the anticipated elevated apoplastic Ado/ATP ratio in enth3nsh3 (Daumann et al., 2015) might have a main role in enhancing plant colonization by Fo5176. To test this hypothesis, we measured both soluble Ado and ATP levels in the media of hydroponically grown plants in control and Fo5176-infected conditions, as proxy for the levels of those molecules in the apoplast. As expected, the growth media of infected ent3nsh3 plants showed significantly elevated Ado levels in comparison to mock treatments, which were not observed in WT or dorn1 plants (Figure 2—figure supplement 1). In addition, we observed significantly lower amounts of ATP in ent3nsh3 mock-media compared to all other tested genotypes (Figure 2—figure supplement 1), indicating that this mutant has a higher eAdo/eATP ratio than WT in control conditions that is preserved upon Fo5176 infection due to the increase on eAdo (Figure 2D).

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Increased extracellular Adenosine levels enhance fungal penetration rates.

(A) Cumulative Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP root vascular penetrations in wild-type (WT; Col-0), dorn1, ent3, and ent3nsh3 seedlings at different days post-transfer (dpt) to spore-containing plates. Values are mean ± SEM, N≥94 from three independent experiments. RM two-way ANOVA P (treatment, time, treatment x time) on WT vs. dorn1 (≤0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.05); WT vs. ent3nsh3 (≤0.0075,≤0.0001,≤0.0061). Significant differences compared to WT plants at 7 dpt are indicated on the graph (Tukey test); statistics of remaining time points are summarized in Supplementary file 2. (B) Representative images of 8-day-old mock or Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP infected plants as indicated in (A) at 7 days post-transfer to plates containing Fo5176 pSIX::GFP spores. Scale bar = 1 cm. (C) Root growth of plants indicated in (B) at different days post transfer to mock or Fo5176 pSIX1::GFP-containing plates. Values are mean ± SEM, N≥79 from three independent experiments, RM two-way ANOVA P (genotype, time, genotype x time): WT vs. dorn1 (≤0.01,≤0.0001,≤0.001); WT vs. ent3 (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); WT vs. ent3nsh3 (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.05); WT infected vs. dorn1 infected (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); WT infected vs. ent3 infected (≤0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.05). (D) Ado/ATP ratio content in media from 10 days-old hydroponically-grown wild-type (WT; Col-0), dorn1, and ent3nsh3 seedlings at 4 days after transfer to media with (+Fo5176) and without (Mock) Fo5176 spores, and in media where Fo5176 was growing alone for 4 days (Fo5176). Values are mean ± SEM, N≥3 biological replicates, Welch’s unpaired t-test in respect to their mock (black) or among genotypes (blue): * p-value ≤0.05.

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Increased extracellular Adenosine levels enhance fungal penetration rates.

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eAdo increases the rapid ATP-induced transient cytosolic Ca2+ peak

To molecularly characterize the high susceptibility of dorn1 and ent3nsh3 to Fo5176, we explored earlier cellular immune responses, starting with the eATP-induced cytosolic Ca2+ (cytoCa2+) peak (Choi et al., 2014a). Employing the ratiometric cytoCa2+ sensor R‐GECO1‐mTurquoise (Waadt et al., 2017), we first determined the minimal ATP concentration that led to a consistent increase of intracellular Ca2+ in the meristematic and elongation zone of Arabidopsis WT roots. 10 µM ATP were enough to consistently induce a cytoCa2+ peak (Figure 3A and B), as previously reported (Demidchik et al., 2003). After introgressing R‐GECO1‐mTurquoise into both mutant lines, we found that addition of ATP to ent3nsh3 led to a Ca2+ spike in the first 3 min, 1.5 times higher than that detected in WT, which decays to WT levels, indicating that an increased eAdo/eATP proportion might modulate rapid eATP-induced responses (Figure 3A–D). Consistent with the role of DORN1 as the main eATP receptor, we detected no cytoCa2+ peak in dorn1 upon ATP treatment (Figure 3E and F). Next, we investigated if the external addition of Ado can interfere with this signaling process by testing various Ado concentrations (Figure 3—figure supplement 1). While Ado did not induce any changes in the cytoCa2+ levels up to a concentration of 200 µM, we detected that Ado enhanced the eATP-induced cytoCa2+ spike transiently when the ATP:Ado ratio was at least 1:5 (Figure 3B). The cytoCa2+ spike did not further increase in response to higher eATP:eAdo ratios (Figure 3—figure supplement 1). Accordingly, the high eATP-induced cytoCa2+ peak observed in ent3nsh3 did not further increase by adding Ado (Figure 3C and D; Figure 3—figure supplement 1). These data indicate that chemical or genetic enhancement of eAdo/eATP rapidly increases the eATP-induced transient cytoCa2+ peak up to a certain eATP:eAdo concentration ratio. Moreover, we observed that eAdo could not alter the lack of response of dorn1 to ATP (Figure 3E and F; Figure 3—figure supplement 1), confirming that the plant response to Ado is ATP-dependent.

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eAdo enhances eATP-induced DORN1-mediated cytosolic Ca2+ peak.

(A), (C), and (E) Representative images of five-days-old wild-type (WT; Col-0; A), ent3nsh3 (C) and dorn1 (E) roots expressing the cytoCa2+ sensor, R-GECO1-mTurquoise –180 s before and 100 s after being exposed to ATP (upper panels) or ATP +Ado (bottom panels). Heatmaps indicate signal intensity (arbitrary units). Scale bar = 125 μm. (B), (D), and (F) cytoCa2+ in roots as in (A), (C), and (E) represented as normalized fluorescence intensity changes (ΔF:F) of R-GECO1: mTurquoise. Imaging started 180 s before either ATP or ATP +Ado was added (0 min; arrow head). Values are means ± SEM, N≥18 from three independent experiments. RM two-way ANOVA P (treatment, time, treatment x time): (B) control vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.0001,≤0.01,≤0.0001); control vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≤0.0001,≤0.01,≤0.0001); 10 μM ATP vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); (D) control vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); control vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≤0.0001,≤0.01,≤0.0001).

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eAdo enhances eATP-induced DORN1-mediated cytosolic Ca2+ peak.

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eAdo alters the ATP-induced apoplast alkalization

Exogenous application of ATP induces apoplast alkalization, as part of the fast plant response to DAMPs (Wu et al., 2008; Hao et al., 2012). Hence, we investigated if, as we observed for the cytoCa2+ peak, eAdo also influences the ATP-dependent apoplastic pH (pHapo) changes. By imaging the ratiometric pHapo sensor SYP122-pHusion (Kesten et al., 2019) in WT roots, we confirmed that the apoplast alkalizes in response to the same ATP concentration required to induce a cytoCa2+ peak (10 µM; Figure 4—figure supplement 1), which we used concurrently for all further experiments. Analogous to the effect on cytoCa2+ levels, Ado did not affect the pHapo on its own even at concentrations of 200 µM, while it altered the plant response when combined with eATP starting at 1:5 eATP:eAdo ratio (Figure 4 and S5). eAdo concentrations up to 50 µM counteracted the eATP-induced apoplast alkalization, while 200 µM eAdo enhanced the eATP-dependent pHapo peak (Figure 4A and B, Figure 4—figure supplement 1A). On the other hand, ent3nsh3 mutants showed comparable pHapo response to ATP as observed in WT roots, a response that was not altered by the Ado treatment (Figure 4C and D, Figure 4—figure supplement 1B). These results indicate that the high eAdo/eATP ratio in ent3nsh3 apoplast cannot alter the plant response to eATP regarding pHapo changes but block the effect of exogenous Ado. In this context, it has to be highlighted that ent3nsh3 mutants already show an elevated apoplastic pH under physiological conditions (pH = 6.00) in comparison to WT (pH = 5.54) (Figure 4—figure supplement 1D). Unexpectedly, dorn1 responded to eATP with a slight, but significant, pHapo decrease that was restored to control levels by eAdo (Figure 4E and F; Figure 4—figure supplement 1C). Our data indicate that ATP induces a DORN1-independent apoplastic acidification, which seems to be counteracted by eAdo. Moreover, dorn1 roots also showed a more alkaline apoplast than WT under control conditions, as detected in ent3nsh3 (Figure 4—figure supplement 1D), hinting at a disturbed proton homeostasis in both mutants.

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eAdo alters eATP-induced DORN1-mediated apoplast alkalization.

(A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) Apoplastic pH over time in roots expressing the pHapo sensor SYP122-pHusion represented as the relative signal compared to the averaged baseline recorded prior to treatments (ΔF:F).Imaging started 270 s before either ATP or ATP +Ado was added (0 s; arrow head). Values are mean ± SEM; N≥12 seedlings from three independent experiments. RM two-way ANOVA, P (treatment, time, treatment x time) on (A) control vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.0001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); 10 μM ATP vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≥0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.05); (B) 200 μM Ado vs. 10 μM ATP +200 μM Ado (≤0.05,≤0.001,≤0.0001); 10 μM ATP vs. 10 μM ATP +200 μM Ado (≤0.01,≤0.01,≤0.0001); 200 μM Ado vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.05,≤0.001,≤0.0001); (C) control vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); control vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≤0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); ATP vs. 10 μM ATP +50 μM Ado (≤0.01,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); (D) 200 μM Ado vs. 10 μM ATP (≥0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); 200 μM Ado vs. 10 μM ATP +200 μM Ado (≥0.05,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); 10 μM ATP vs. 200 μM Ado +10 μM ATP; (E) control vs. 10 μM ATP (≤0.001,≤0.0001,≤0.0001); (F) 200 μM Ado vs. 10 μM ATP (≥0.05,≤0.001,≤0.01).

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eAdo alters eATP-induced DORN1-mediated apoplast alkalization.

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The expression of Arabidopsis defense genes in response to Fo5176 is eATP/eAdo-dependent

To further investigate the influence of Fo5176 on the activation of eATP/eAdo-dependent plant immune responses, we measured the expression of four defense-related genes upon Fo5176 infection. In agreement with the function of eATP as DAMP, DORN1 expression increased in WT infected-roots but was significantly downregulated in ent3nsh3 mutant plants upon Fo5176 colonization (Figure 5). The expression of three genes previously reported to be activated in Fo5176-infected Arabidopsis roots; WRKY45, WRKY53, and At1g51890 Masachis et al., 2016; Kesten et al., 2019; Gámez-Arjona et al., 2022 followed a similar pattern as they were all upregulated in response to Fo5176 in WT plants but not in dorn1 or ent3nsh3 mutants (Figure 5). These data confirm that Fo5176 induces a eATP/eAdo-dependent plant immune response that might explain the high susceptibility of dorn1 and ent3nsh3 mutants to the fungus.

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Accumulation of extracellular Ado impedes DORN1-mediated gene defense upregulation DONR1, WRKY45, WRKY53, and At1g51890 expression relative to AtGAPDH in WT (Col-0), dorn1, or ent3nsh3 roots 4 days post-treatment with Fo5176 spores or with control media (Mock).

Values are mean ± SEM, N≥3 biological replicates, Welch’s unpaired t-test within each genotype in respect to their mock (black) or among genotypes (blue); * p-value ≤0.05, ** p-value ≤0.01.

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Accumulation of extracellular Ado impedes DORN1-mediated gene defense upregulation.

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Discussion

Ado is known as a key extracellular mediator of the animal immune response and its molecular activity in relation with eATP is increasingly recognized (Antonioli et al., 2019; Silva-Vilches et al., 2018). However, the knowledge of its role in plant-microbe interaction is very scarce. In this work, we show that an increased apoplastic Ado/ATP ratio enhanced plant susceptibility to the soil-borne pathogen Fo5176 and that the fungus benefits from this effect by modifying its metabolism in planta to raise the Ado concentration in the apoplast.

We identify Ado as a main elicitor of Fo when grown in vitro (Figure 1A). The transcriptional upregulation of the fungal but not of the plant eAdo producing molecular machinery during infection and fungal secretion of Fo5’NT during root colonization indicates that Fo exudes this molecule when colonizing roots (Figure 1B, C, Table 1, Figure 6). Therefore, our data expand the current knowledge on apoplastic effectors secreted by plant fungal pathogens (Masachis et al., 2016; Wei et al., 2022; Xia et al., 2020). The presence of Ado in the media during Fo colonization of Arabidopsis roots did not alter the host-microbe interaction on its own, but blocked the ATP-induced plant resistance, while not affecting fungal growth (Figure 1D–G, Figure 1—figure supplement 1). Hence, we deduce that eAdo interferes with the ATP-induced plant immune system activation upon fungal infection. Genetically encoded plant sensors for cytosolic Ca2+ levels and apoplastic pH confirmed that 10 µM ATP induces pattern-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis roots, as we could detect an immediate cytoCa2+ peak and apoplastic alkalization in response to this molecule (Figures 3A–B ,–4A–B). Importantly, the application of 50 µM Ado further enhanced the transient but not the sustained Ca2+ influx response elicited by ATP, while Ado alone did not induce any plant response different from the control treatment (Figure 3A and B). A comparable mechanism was already discovered in oviductal ciliated cells in which adenosine itself is inactive but increases ATP induced calcium influx through activation of protein kinase A (Barrera et al., 2007). The same Ado concentration efficiently blocked the ATP-induced alkalization of the root apoplast, while Ado levels above a certain threshold significantly increased the ATP effect on apoplastic pH without any effect on the sustained Ca2+ influx (Figure 4A, B, Figure 4—figure supplement 1). As apoplastic alkalization has been reported to be required for Fo pathogenesis (Masachis et al., 2016; Kesten et al., 2019), our data indicate that eAdo hinders ATP-induced plant resistance above a certain eATP/eAdo ratio by boosting the ATP-induced apoplast alkalization (Figure 6). Our short-term response data suggest that the rapid apoplastic alkalization generated by eATP is not a main contributor to plant defense against Fo5176, as (Roux and Steinebrunner, 2007) eAdo boosts this plant response potentially leading to increased fungal virulence (Figures 1D and 4B), and (Chen et al., 2017) eATP also generates a pHapo peak in the Fo5172 susceptible mutant ent3nsh3, similar to WT plants. It was previously reported that eATP induces defense-related gene expression independently of its effect on media pH (Jewell et al., 2022). However, more research is needed to clarify the relationship between pH changes and the defense mechanism triggered by eATP, and MAMPs/DAMPs/elicitors in general, in the process of an infection. The elevated pHapo of dorn1 under mock conditions might indicate a positive regulatory function of signal transducers downstream of DORN1 on H+-ATPases (Figure 3—figure supplement 1D). The reason for an ATP-dependent decrease in pHapo in dorn1 mutants remains to be elucidated, although another target of eATP might be involved in that response.

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Scheme of the fungal-induced downregulation of the extracellular ATP and Adenosine homeostasis to increase its virulence.

Previously published results (adapted from Nizam et al., 2019) showed that ATP is released into the apoplast by wounding, active transport and exocytosis. Apyrases (APY) and purple acid phosphatases (PAP) degrade ATP to AMP, which is further processed by 5’ nucletotidases (5’NT) and nucleoside hydrolases (NSH) to adenosine (Ado) and adenine (Ade). Equilibrative nucleotide transporters (ENT) and purine permease transporters (PUP) mediate take up of Ado and Ade into the cytoplasm. ATP is perceived by the puringeric receptor DORN1, which triggers Ca2+ influx. Subsequently calcium dependent downstream signaling re-programming is initiated. First contact with F. oxysporum 5176 (Fo5176) elicits phosphorylation of Arabidopsis H+-ATPases (AHAs) and accordingly the apoplast acidifies (Kesten et al., 2019). In this work, we show that during root colonization (red symbols), Fo5176 upregulates expression of eATP hydrolyzing ecto-5’ nucleotidase (Fo5’NT) and Ado transporter (FoENT) and secretes more Fo5’NT, increasing the extracellular Ado (eAdo) levels. eAdo interferes with ATP-induced plant immune system activation above a certain eAdo/eATP ratio by boosting ATP-induced apoplast alkalinization and thereby enhancing fungal virulence. Similar results were obtained in the ent3nsh3 mutant where we detected higher eAdo/eATP levels compared to WT plants. Accordingly, this plant mutant is more susceptible to Fo5176 than WT plants and we observed a lack of upregulation of Fo5176-induced defense genes. Our data suggest that eAdo is perceived via a hitherto undiscovered dedicated plant receptor.

Infection assays revealed an increased susceptibility of ent3nsh3 mutants compared to WT whereas ent3 single mutants were not significantly different from WT (Figure 2A). We did not detect higher Ado levels in the media in contact with ent3nsh3 roots compared to WT and dorn1 lines (Figure 2D), confirming previous data showing similar eAdo levels in ent3nsh3 and WT roots grown hydroponically (Daumann et al., 2015). Our results, though, indicate that the ent3nsh3 mutant has a higher eAdo/eATP ratio in control media than WT plants, as it secretes comparable levels of Ado but less ATP to the media in mock conditions (Figures 2D and 3). This enhanced eAdo/eATP ratio might explain the constitutive upregulation of DORN1 in ent3nsh3 compared to WT (Figure 5). A potential higher activity of DORN1 in ent3nsh3 under mock conditions can explain its increased response to ATP regarding cytosolic Ca2+ peak and pHapo (Figures 3C–D–4C–D). However, during Fo5176 infection, those high DORN1 expression levels detected in mock ent3nsh3 drop, most probably as a result of the lack of its capacity to respond to Fo5176 infection, similar to that observed in the dorn1 mutant (Figure 5). Thus, we conclude that a constitutively high eAdo/eATP ratio reduces plant resistance to Fo, an hypothesis substantiated by experiments in which WT plants showed similar responses when exposed to these molecules (Figure 1D). Furthermore, deficient defense responses on the transcriptional level in the ent3nsh3 mutants corroborated this idea (Figure 5). The high cytoCa2+ peaks detected in ent3nsh3 in response to ATP, equivalent to what we observed in WT plants upon ATP +Ado, suggest a sufficient enrichment of eAdo/eATP in the mutant to respond to ATP (Figure 3B and D). These high ATP-induced transient cytoCa2+ levels are not enough to activate a proper defense mechanism in ent3nsh3, in agreement with previously reported data (Figure 5, Blume et al., 2000). On the other hand, ent3nsh3 pHapo changes in response to ATP were similar to those observed in WT, but the response was not changed by the addition of Ado, which altered the alkalization peak in control plants (Figure 4A–D). This could be explained by the conflicting published data about ENT3 being a proton symporter while transporting Ado (Traub et al., 2007; Möhlmann et al., 2001; Wormit et al., 2004; Chen et al., 2006). Since Ado requires the presence of ATP to alter the pHapo in WT plants, it is conceivable that the perception of ATP by DORN1 is required to initiate essential phosphorylation of ENT3 prior to transport, as reported for an ENT-family member in mammals (Reyes et al., 2011). In addition, since we still detected a pHapo increase in ent3nsh3 mutants in response to ATP, we hypothesize that there is another proton-distribution-modifying component involved. Considering the alkaline apoplast detected in ent3nsh3 under mock conditions (Figure 4—figure supplement 1D; Haruta and Sussman, 2012; Behera et al., 2018), we anticipate that a plasma-membrane localized H+-ATPase might be negatively controlled by eAdo. This constitutive high pHapo measured in ent3nsh3 might explain its different response to ATP +200 μM Ado compared to WT since the proton deficiency in the apoplast restricts the plant’s ability to further increase pHapo (Figure 4B and D; S5A and B). It also has to be taken into account that the prevalence of DORN1 in ent3nsh3 mutants is higher compared to WT (Figure 5), which could enable an enhanced induction of downstream signals like transient cytosolic Ca2+ peak (Figure 3D). The constitutively high apoplastic eAdo/eATP ratio and pHapo detected in ent3nsh3 concurs with an enhanced eATP-dependent pHapo increase and could explain the higher susceptibility of this mutant to Fo5176 (Figure 6). We anticipate similar functions in response to other pathogens, based on the reported positive role of DORN1/P2K1 in plant resistance to the soilborne fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani (Kumar et al., 2020).

Our data suggest that Ado could act as an antagonist and compete with ATP over the DORN1 receptor. However, this hypothesis was discarded by Choi et al., 2014a who showed no competitive inhibition of the DORN1 receptor by Ado. It can, however, not be fully excluded that Ado acts as a non-competitive or allosteric antagonist of ATP at the DORN1 receptor. It is also possible that eAdo may directly regulate apoplastic enzymes, e.g., ecto-apyrase/E-NTPDase, E5'NT, or another phosphatase, thereby indirectly controlling eATP homeostasis. A third option to explain the eAdo influence on ATP-mediated plant responses is the existence of an eAdo receptor whose activation interferes with the ATP-induced cascade (Figure 6). Importantly, maximum cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations as well as pHapo peaks were detected 100 s after simultaneous application of ATP and Ado in all plant genotypes, including the dorn1 mutant. Therefore we expect eAdo to prompt its effect at the plasma membrane level, like eATP (Figure 3B and D), and suggest the existence of a dedicated plant Ado receptor as described in animals. Indeed, G protein coupled receptors are reported to bind and sense adenosine in mammals and yeast (Antonioli et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2021). However, considering that AtDORN1 is not directly homologous to its mammalian counterpart (Choi et al., 2014b), an Ado-receptor analogous to the mammalian purinergic G protein coupled receptor class is unlikely. Further research is necessary to clarify the mechanism of eAdo perception and activity in plant response to ATP.

Materials and methods

Plant material and growth conditions

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All Arabidopsis thaliana lines were in Col-0 background. The pHapo sensor line pub10::SYP122-pHusion, the calcium sensor line pub10::R-GECO1-mTurquoise, dorn1-3, ent3-1 and ent3nsh3 were published previously (Choi et al., 2014a; Daumann et al., 2015; Kesten et al., 2019; Waadt et al., 2017). Seedlings throughout all experiments were grown upright on solid, non-buffered half MS media (pH 5.75) at 24 °C with a photoperiod of 16 hr for the indicated timeframes.

Fungal material and growth conditions

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Fusarium oxysporum Fo5176 and Fusarium oxysporum Fo5176 pSIX::GFP were used throughout this study. Strain culture and storage were performed as described earlier (Di Pietro et al., 2001). Fo5176 was grown in liquid half potato dextrose broth (PDB) at 27 °C for 5 days in the dark. Spores were collected by filtering the suspension through miracloth, centrifuging the filtrate at 3500 rcf, discarding the supernatant and resuspending the spores in dsH2O.

Fungal elicitor mix preparation, and fractionation, and molecule identification

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Fungal elicitor mix was prepared as published previously (Kesten et al., 2019; Baldrich et al., 2014) and separated via enrichment using Discovery DSC-C18 (2 g) columns (Merck) with a H2O/MeOH gradient from 100 % to 0 % H2O in 10% steps. Fractions were bioassayed and active fractions purified to individual components via an Agilent 1100 HPLC using Zorbax SB-C18 (9.4x150 mm) semi-prep column in a linear gradient of H2O/MeOH and flow rate of 5 mL/min. Individual peaks were assayed for activity. The pure active compound was characterized by standard 1D and 2D NMR experiments performed at the NMR Service of the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at ETH Zürich. All experiments were performed using d6-DMSO in a 600 MHz Bruker NMR equipped with a 5 mm probe. Data was analyzed using MestreNova 8.1 software (Mestrelab Research, Spain). LC-MS data was obtained on an Agilent 6400 LC-qTOF in scanning positive mode to produce a single signal with an m/z of 268.1044 (C10H13N5O4 calc. 268.1046 1.72 ppm) and identical retention time to an external standard of adenosine.

Fungal transformation

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PCR and complementary primers (Supplementary file 1) were used to generate two DNA fragments with overlapping ends (Ho et al., 1989). A resistance cassette containing the neomycin phosphotransferase (npTII) cloned between the A. nidulans gdpA promoter and the trpC terminator (López-Berges et al., 2009) was used to generate two DNA fragments promoting the homologous recombination in fungal protoplasts. Protoplasts were produced as described previously (Powell and Kistler, 1990) and their transformation done as reported by Malardier et al., 1989.

In-vitro growth assay of Fo5176

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Freshly harvested Fo5176 spores were diluted to 104 spores/mL and 15 µL of it distributed on solid half MS plates containing 1 mM Ado, 0.5 mM ATP, or both, or none (control). After four days under the plant growth conditions described above (‘Plant material and growth conditions’), the colony diameters were measured using FIJI (Schindelin et al., 2012).

Plant plate infection assays

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Plate infection assays were performed as described earlier (Kesten et al., 2019; Huerta et al., 2020). Ado and ATP treatment plates were generated by mixing hand-warm half MS media, 0.9% agar, with the specific amount of stock solution. Root growth was measured using FIJI (Schindelin et al., 2012).

Hydroponic infection assay

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Hydroponic infection assays were performed as previously described (Menna et al., 2021). Thirty seeds were grown on a foam floating on 50 mL liquid ½ MS media, pH 5.75, 1% sucrose. After 7 days the media was replaced by ½ MS without sucrose. Samples supposed to be infected were inoculated with 5*106 Fo5176 spores. After the indicated days post transfer to spore-containing media, roots and fungal hyphae were harvested for subsequent expression analysis and the media was filtered. For ATP quantification media was flash frozen in liquid nitrogen, for Ado quantification it was freeze dried.

Media ATP quantification

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ATP levels in media from hydroponic infection experiments of hydroponically-grown plants were analyzed using the ATP Colorimetric/Fluorometric Assay Kit (Sigma, USA) and an Infinite M1000 plate reader (Tecan, Switzerland). Assays were done as described in the manual and ATP was detected fluorescently. All samples and standards were measured in duplicates.

Media Ado quantification

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Freeze-dried media samples from hydroponic infection experiments were resuspended in 4 mL MilliQ water. The resulting mixture was loaded onto a 100 mg Discovery DSC-18 column (Supelco, USA). The column was eluted with 1 mL MilliQ water, 1 mL 70% MilliQ water with MeOH and finally 100% MeOH. The resulting aqueous elution was analyzed in positive mode using an Agilent 1200 Infinity II UPLC separation system coupled to an Agilent 6550 iFunnel qTOF mass spectrometer (Agilent, USA). Compounds were separated by infecting 5 µL of sample onto a Zorbax Eclipse Plus C8 RRHD UPLC column (2.1x100 mm, 1.8 µm) held at 50 °C and eluting with a linear water:acetonitrile (both modified with 0.1% formic acid) gradient, 99% water to 99% acetonitrile. Mass spectral data was acquired in positive mode with an electrospray ionization source and scanning a mass range of 100–2000 m/z. Quantification was done by integrating the m/z values corresponding to Ado in MassHunter Quantitative Analysis Software and compared to a standard curve generated at the time of sample measurements.

In vitro growth assay of Fo5176

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Freshly harvested spores were diluted to 104 spores/mL and 15 µL of it distributed on solid half MS plates containing 1 mM Ado, 0.5 mM ATP or both. After four days under plant growth conditions the colony diameters were measured using FIJI.

Gene expression analysis by real-time quantitative PCR

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Freeze-dried fungal and plant material from plate infection assays respectively hydroponics was ground to powder using glass beads and a TissueLyser II (Quiagen, Netherlands). Total RNA was extracted using GENEzol reagent (Geneaid, Taiwan) following the manufacturer’s protocol. One µg of RNA was used to generate first strand cDNA using the Maxima First Strand cDNA Synthesis-Kit (Thermo Scientific, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions. To amplify corresponding cDNA sequences primers (; Choi et al., 2014a; Masachis et al., 2016; Kesten et al., 2019; Czechowski et al., 2005; Arnaud et al., 2017; Van der Does et al., 2017) were used along with Fast SYBR Green Master Mix (Thermo Scientific, USA) under following cycle conditions: 95 °C for 3 min, 40 cycles of 94 °C for 10 s, 58 °C for 15 s and 72 °C for 10 s. Two technical replicates were performed for each reaction and the reference genes AtGAPDH and Foβtub were amplified on each plate for normalization. Relative expression was analyzed using the 2-∆Ct method (Schmittgen and Livak, 2008).

Ratiometric pHapo sensor imaging

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Experiments were carried out as described earlier (Kesten et al., 2019). A Leica TCS SP8-AOBS (Leica Microsystems, Germany) confocal laser scanning microscope equipped with a Leica 10×0.3 NA HC PL Fluotar Ph1 objective or a Leica Stellaris 8 equipped with a Leica HC PL APO CS2 10 x/0.40 DRY were used. pHusion was excited and detected simultaneously (Excitation: GFP 488 nm, mRFP 561 nm; Detection: GFP between 500 and 545 nm; mRFP between 600 and 640 nm). Five-day-old A. thaliana seedlings expressing the sensor SYP122-pHusion grown on ½ MS +1% sucrose were transferred to imaging chambers as described previously (Krebs and Schumacher, 2013) but placed on top of 1% agarose cushions. Subsequently, the chamber was filled with ½ MS, pH 5.75. Images were collected as XYt series for 15 min with a time frame of 30 s. Image settings were kept identical throughout the experiments for each reporter line. After a recovery time of 15 min the experiment was started by acquiring ten images of the seedling' roots without treatment to create a baseline of averaged relative signal. Roots were imaged from the tip including their elongation zone. The different treatments were applied in a volume of 100 µL after 300 s. ∆F:F values were calculated according to following formula: ∆F:F= relative signal - baselinebaseline . Maximal amplitudes of ∆F:F signals were obtained by averaging the maximal ∆F:F signals of all curves. To collect standard curves for the pHapo ratiometric sensor, a set of nine buffers from pH 4.8 to pH 8.0 were used. Each buffer was based on 50 mM ammonium acetate. Buffer pH 4.8 comprised additionally 22 mM citric acid, 27 mM trisodium citrate. pH was adjusted with 0.01 M HCl. Buffers pH 5.2 to pH 6.4 contained 50 mM 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid (MES), buffers pH 6.8 to pH 8.0 were composed of 50 mM 4-(2-hydro- xyethyl)–1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (HEPES). One M Bis-Tris propane was used to adjust the pH values of buffers pH 5.2 to pH 8.0. Six to eight seedlings per buffer were incubated for 15 min and imaged after transfer to microscope slides.

Ratiometric cytoCa2+ sensor imaging

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Imaging was done as described for the pHapo sensor (Kesten et al., 2019) with slight modifications. Five-day-old A. thaliana seedlings expressing the reporter R-GECO1-mTurquoise (Waadt et al., 2017) were grown on ½ MS, pH 5.75, 1% sucrose. mTurquoise was excited with 405 nm and detected between 460–520 nm, R-GECO1 was excited with 561 nm and detected between 580 and 640 nm. Imaging time frame was set to 20 s. Corrective flat field images for 405 nm were acquired by using 7-Diethylamino-4-methylcoumarin (Sigma D87759-5G, 50 mg/mL in DMSO). Relative signal was calculated by dividing mean gray values of the R-GECO1 channel by the mean gray values of the mTurquoise channel. ∆F:F values and Maximal amplitude of ∆F/F signals were calculated as described for the pHapo sensor.

Statistical analyses

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All statistical analyses were performed using Prism 9. Statistical methods and the resulting P-values are defined in the corresponding figure legends. Outlier tests were performed on datasets with. If the automatically detected fluorescent ratios of the genetic pH or Ca2+sensors were measured to be outside of the standard curve range, they were excluded from the analysis. Such cases could always be allocated to severe drift of analyzed roots in the analysis chamber.

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All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files.

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  1. Christopher Kesten

    1. Department of Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zürich, Switzerland
    2. Department for Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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    Lonza AG, Visp, Switzerland
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    Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing
    Contributed equally with
    Valentin Leitner
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  2. Valentin Leitner

    Department of Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zürich, Switzerland
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    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria
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    Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing
    Contributed equally with
    Christopher Kesten
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  3. Susanne Dora

    Department of Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zürich, Switzerland
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  4. James W Sims

    Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  5. Julian Dindas

    Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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  6. Cyril Zipfel

    Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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  7. Consuelo M De Moraes

    Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  8. Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez

    1. Department of Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zürich, Switzerland
    2. Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) – Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
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Funding

Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung

  • Christopher Kesten

ETH Zürich Foundation (SEED-05 19-2)

  • Christopher Kesten

Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF20OC0060564)

  • Christopher Kesten

Lundbeck Foundation (R346-2020-1546)

  • Christopher Kesten

Swiss National Science Foundation (31003A_182625)

  • Cyril Zipfel

European Molecular Biology Organization (683-2018)

  • Julian Dindas

Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_184769)

  • Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez

ETH Zürich

  • Consuelo M De Moraes
  • Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Acknowledgements

Live cell imaging was performed with equipment maintained by the Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM, ETH Zurich) and by the Center for Advanced Bioimaging (CAB) Denmark. Funding: The work described in this manuscript was supported by the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung foundation, the ETH Foundation (SEED-05 19–2), the Novo Nordisk Foundation (Emerging Investigator grant NNF20OC0060564), and the Lundbeck foundation (R346-2020-1546) to CK; the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 31003 A_182625) to CZ; a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO LTFs no. 683–2018) to JD.; the ETH Zurich core funding to CMDM, and the ETH Zurich core funding and the Swiss Swiss National foundation (SNF 310030_184769) to CSR.

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  1. Preprint posted: November 19, 2022 (view preprint)
  2. Received: September 19, 2023
  3. Accepted: November 23, 2023
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: November 23, 2023 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: December 22, 2023 (version 2)

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  1. Christopher Kesten
  2. Valentin Leitner
  3. Susanne Dora
  4. James W Sims
  5. Julian Dindas
  6. Cyril Zipfel
  7. Consuelo M De Moraes
  8. Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez
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Soil-borne fungi alter the apoplastic purinergic signaling in plants by deregulating the homeostasis of extracellular ATP and its metabolite adenosine
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