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The requested protein is unambiguously FLAGELLIN-SENSING 2 (FLS2), encoded by At5g46330 in Arabidopsis thaliana. The literature identity, organism, locus, and architecture agree with UniProt Q9FL28: FLS2 is a precursor, single-pass leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like serine/threonine kinase (LRR-RK), with an N-terminal signal peptide, extracellular plant-type LRR ectodomain, transmembrane helix, and cytoplasmic kinase. No literature concerning a different same-symbol protein was used. At5g46330 is explicitly assigned to Arabidopsis FLS2, and functional FLS2 was detected as an approximately 175-kDa protein. (mueller2012chimericfls2receptors pages 10-11, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
FLS2 is not primarily a metabolic enzyme or transporter. It is a plasma-membrane pattern-recognition receptor (PRR) whose extracellular ligand is flg22, a conserved 22-amino-acid epitope of bacterial flagellin. Ligand binding recruits the co-receptor BAK1/SERK3 and activates a kinase network involving receptor-associated BIK1 and RBOHD, producing calcium/ion-channel responses, reactive oxygen species (ROS), MAPK activation, transcriptional reprogramming, stomatal closure, callose deposition, and antibacterial pattern-triggered immunity (PTI). Activated FLS2 is subsequently internalized and degraded, limiting or reshaping signaling. (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2)
The most important 2024 advances show that FLS2 signaling is spatially organized rather than arising from a freely mixed membrane system. Ser938 phosphorylation promotes FLS2 partitioning into REM1.3-associated nanodomains and endocytosis; myosin XIK and cortical actin recruit and immobilize BIK1 in these nanodomains; and synthetic small molecules can bias FLS2 toward restricted transcriptional outputs sufficient for antibacterial protection. (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 7-8, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 5-6)
| Feature | Current conclusion | Strongest evidence | Key quantitative detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | FLS2 is the correct target: Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g46330, encoding FLAGELLIN-SENSING 2 (UniProt Q9FL28); no different same-symbol protein is implicated. | At5g46330 is explicitly assigned to Arabidopsis FLS2 in receptor studies; loss-of-function mutations eliminate flagellin responsiveness, whereas heterologous expression transfers Arabidopsis-like perception (Chinchilla et al., 2006) (mueller2012chimericfls2receptors pages 10-11, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2) | Functional FLS2 was detected as an approximately 175-kDa polypeptide (chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2). |
| Architecture and protein class | A precursor, single-pass LRR receptor-like Ser/Thr kinase: N-terminal signal peptide, extracellular plant-type LRR ectodomain, one transmembrane helix, and cytosolic kinase domain. | Mutational and structural analyses establish the extracellular LRR ligand-binding surface and intracellular kinase-dependent signaling (Dunning et al., 2007; Sun et al., 2013) (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2) | The ectodomain contains approximately 28 LRRs; responsiveness determinants concentrate in LRRs 9–15, especially 12–14 (roy2020effectofd122n pages 15-20, dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2). |
| Ligand (“substrate”) specificity | FLS2 is primarily a signaling receptor, not a metabolic enzyme. Its extracellular ligand is flg22, a conserved 22-amino-acid epitope of bacterial flagellin; ATP is used by the cytosolic kinase for protein phosphorylation after activation. | Chemical cross-linking and immunoprecipitation demonstrated direct FLS2–flg22 binding; receptor transfer conferred Arabidopsis-type specificity (Chinchilla et al., 2006). The ternary-complex crystal structure defined peptide contacts (Sun et al., 2013) (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2) | The 3.06-Å structure shows FLS2 contacting both flg22 termini and BAK1 contacting the receptor-bound peptide’s C terminus (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3). |
| Activation complex and pathway | flg22-bound FLS2 recruits co-receptor BAK1/SERK3. Reciprocal phosphorylation activates the receptor complex and associated BIK1; activated BIK1 dissociates and phosphorylates RBOHD, generating the apoplastic ROS burst and promoting ion fluxes, MAPKs, defense transcription, callose, stomatal closure, and antibacterial immunity. | Structural analysis supports ligand-induced FLS2–flg22–BAK1 assembly; genetics, co-immunoprecipitation, phosphoblots, and pathogen assays support the BIK1–RBOHD branch (Sun et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2024) (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 3-4) | Wang et al. used 1 µM flg22 for 2–30 min to assay complex activation and measured stomatal closure after 10 µM for 1 h; RBOHD Ser39 phosphorylation was strongly reduced when myosin-XI function was lost (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 3-4). |
| Cellular localization and turnover | FLS2 acts at the plasma membrane of epidermal, mesophyll, guard, root, stem, and petal cells. Active ligand triggers endocytosis into vesicles and eventual degradation; surface receptor is replenished mainly by new synthesis. | Functional FLS2–GFP imaging, plasmolysis, ligand/antagonist specificity, pulse–wash experiments, and cycloheximide treatment (Robatzek et al., 2006) (robatzek2006ligandinducedendocytosisof pages 2-3) | After 10 µM flg22, plasma-membrane signal disappeared and vesicles appeared within 20–40 min; after a 20-min pulse, surface signal was nearly restored by 75 min, but cycloheximide blocked replenishment (robatzek2006ligandinducedendocytosisof pages 2-3). |
| Ser938 phosphorylation and nanodomains (2024) | Phosphorylation of cytosolic Ser938 is dispensable for FLS2–BAK1 heterodimerization but promotes FLS2 partitioning into AtRem1.3-associated sterol-rich nanodomains, alters receptor mobility/lifetime, enhances endocytosis, and supports full immunity. | Single-particle tracking, FRET-FLIM/proximity assays, phospho-dead S938A and phosphomimetic S938D complementation, fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy, and vesicle imaging (Cui et al., 2024; published 24 July 2024) (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 4-5, cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 1-2, cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 7-9) | After 10 µM flg22, WT and S938D formed vesicles by 15 min, increasing through 30–60 min, whereas S938A formed few; vesicle differences reached p < 0.001 (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 7-9). |
| Myosin XIK–BIK1 nanodomain mechanism (2024) | Myosin XIK, acting with cortical actin and REM1.3 nanodomains, recruits and immobilizes BIK1 near FLS2, stabilizing preformed FLS2–BIK1 complexes. This is required for robust BIK1/RBOHD activation, ROS, stomatal defense, and flg22-induced bacterial resistance, but not for FLS2–BAK1 recruitment. | Direct pull-down, FRET-FLIM, co-immunoprecipitation, triple-myosin mutant/complementation, inhibitors, single-particle tracking, and Pseudomonas assays (Wang et al., 2024; published 14 June 2024) (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 4-5, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 5-7, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 7-8, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 3-4) | BIK1 and FLS2 clusters averaged 0.28 ± 0.03 µm and 0.27 ± 0.05 µm. In the myosin-XI mutant, confined BIK1 fell from 31% to 6% and its immobile fraction from 14% to 3%; inhibiting myosin reduced FLS2–BIK1 correlation from 0.53 ± 0.11 to 0.28 ± 0.10 (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 4-5, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 5-7). |
| Biased agonists and application (2024) | Synthetic ligands Maya1 and Maya2 weakly and atypically activate FLS2. They bypass much of canonical ROS/BIK1/MAPK signaling yet induce restricted, organ-dependent transcriptional programs sufficient for antibacterial priming—proof of concept for receptor-targeted immune activators rather than a deployed crop product. | A reverse chemical screen, purified-ectodomain binding, fls2 dependency, receptor mutagenesis, RNA-seq, and Pseudomonas syringae challenge (Lee et al., 2024; accepted 1 November 2024) (lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 3-4, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 8-10, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 1-2, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 5-6) | Of 22,618 compounds, 84 bound the FLS2 ectodomain. Maya2 had K₍d₎ = 8.56 ± 3.07 µM; Maya1 and Maya2 regulated 156 and 113 FLS2-dependent genes, respectively, and reduced bacterial growth approximately 10-fold in WT but not fls2 plants (lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 3-4, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 1-2, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 5-6). |
Table: Concise evidence matrix for the verified Arabidopsis FLS2/Q9FL28 receptor, covering molecular function, localization, signaling, quantitative findings, and major 2024 mechanistic and translational developments.
The gene symbol, locus, and protein description are concordant. Arabidopsis FLS2 is At5g46330, the receptor originally genetically defined by loss of flagellin sensitivity. Direct ligand-binding studies and heterologous expression established that this gene product determines Arabidopsis-type flg22 perception: chemical cross-linking and immunoprecipitation demonstrated FLS2–flg22 association, while expression of Arabidopsis FLS2 in tomato cells installed an additional receptor system with Arabidopsis-like ligand specificity. These results rule out annotation based solely on sequence similarity. (chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
Its architecture matches the supplied InterPro assignments. FLS2 has an N-terminal secretory signal, a large extracellular LRR solenoid, one membrane-spanning segment, and an intracellular Ser/Thr kinase domain. Approximately 28 LRRs are commonly assigned to the ectodomain. Mutational scanning localized important flg22-response determinants to LRRs 9–15, especially conserved solvent-exposed residues in LRRs 12–14. These functional data agree with the LRR, plant LRR-N-terminal, LRR-superfamily, kinase-like, and protein-kinase annotations supplied for Q9FL28. (roy2020effectofd122n pages 15-20, dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
FLS2 functions as a cell-surface immune sensor and signal-transducing kinase. Its biologically relevant extracellular ligand is bacterial flagellin, particularly the conserved flg22 peptide. In enzymatic terms, the cytoplasmic domain belongs to the Ser/Thr protein-kinase superfamily and transfers phosphate from ATP to protein substrates or receptor-complex components; however, the defining biological specificity is extracellular recognition of flg22 rather than small-molecule substrate turnover. (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
Direct biochemical evidence includes ligand cross-linking to immunoprecipitated FLS2 and receptor-transfer experiments showing that FLS2 determines perception specificity. Chimeric-receptor binding assays further showed that immunoprecipitated FLS2 binds radiolabeled flg22 without BAK1 or another SERK being obligatorily present, supporting FLS2 as the primary ligand-binding component. Distinct portions of its LRR ectodomain recognize different “address” and “message” regions of the peptide. (mueller2012chimericfls2receptors pages 10-11, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
The highest-resolution mechanistic evidence is the 3.06-Å FLS2–flg22–BAK1 ectodomain crystal structure, published in Science in November 2013. FLS2 contacts both ends of flg22 along the inner surface of its LRR solenoid: a relatively conserved site recognizes the peptide’s C-terminal region and a less conserved site contacts its N-terminal region. BAK1 contacts both FLS2 and the C terminus of receptor-bound flg22, making the ligand a molecular “glue” for co-receptor recruitment. Mutations at the structurally predicted interface impaired complex formation or downstream MPK phosphorylation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243825. (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3)
Ligand recognition is nevertheless evolutionarily variable. FLS2 LRR sequences are strongly conserved among most tested Arabidopsis accessions but more diverse among Brassicaceae homologues; experimentally altered solvent-exposed LRR residues can quantitatively reduce or abolish flg22 binding and responsiveness. This explains why flagellin epitopes or receptor orthologues from different species need not display identical recognition spectra. (dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2)
FLS2 performs initial recognition at the plasma membrane, with its LRR ectodomain facing the apoplast and its kinase domain facing the cytosol. Functional FLS2–GFP was observed at the cell periphery in roots, leaves, stems, and petals, including epidermal, mesophyll, and guard cells. Plasmolysis caused the fluorescent membrane and associated Hechtian strands to retract from the wall, directly supporting plasma-membrane rather than cell-wall localization. (robatzek2006ligandinducedendocytosisof pages 2-3)
Localization is dynamic. Treatment with 10 µM active flg22 caused plasma-membrane fluorescence to disappear and intracellular vesicles to emerge within 20–40 minutes. Prolonged exposure caused loss of the GFP signal, consistent with degradation. In pulse–wash experiments, vesicles were evident approximately 10 minutes after washing and surface FLS2 was nearly restored by 75 minutes; cycloheximide blocked restoration, indicating replenishment by new synthesis rather than simple recycling. Inactive or antagonistic flg22 variants failed to trigger normal internalization, demonstrating ligand specificity. Published March 2006, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.366506. (robatzek2006ligandinducedendocytosisof pages 2-3)
Thus, the most precise localization annotation is: plasma-membrane immune receptor that, after activation, enters endosomal trafficking and degradation pathways. Endocytosis is not merely constitutive turnover; it is strongly accelerated by productive ligand recognition and is coupled to receptor activation state. (robatzek2006ligandinducedendocytosisof pages 2-3, cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 7-9)
In resting cells, FLS2 associates with the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1. flg22 binding rapidly recruits BAK1/SERK3 to generate the FLS2–flg22–BAK1 complex. Receptor-complex phosphorylation activates BIK1, which subsequently dissociates or changes association state and phosphorylates downstream targets, notably the NADPH oxidase RBOHD. Structural evidence shows that BAK1 is a genuine ligand-dependent co-receptor, not the primary flg22-binding receptor. (roy2020effectofd122n pages 15-20, sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2)
RBOHD phosphorylation—including BIK1-dependent Ser39 phosphorylation—drives the apoplastic oxidative burst. FLS2 signaling also activates ion channels and calcium-dependent signaling, MAPK cascades, and extensive defense-gene transcription. Established physiological outputs include ethylene production, stomatal closure, callose deposition, seedling-growth inhibition under prolonged stimulation, and increased resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. (dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 3-4)
This pathway should not be interpreted as a strictly linear chain. BAK1 recruitment, BIK1 positioning, receptor phosphorylation, plasma-membrane nanodomain organization, ubiquitination, and endocytosis jointly regulate signal amplitude and duration. Recent evidence particularly supports preorganization of some FLS2–BIK1 complexes before ligand perception, followed by ligand-dependent recruitment of BAK1. (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 7-8, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2)
FLS2 mediates antibacterial pattern-triggered immunity, detecting an extracellular microbial structural protein before extensive invasion. Its principal role is therefore surveillance and rapid conversion of microbial-pattern recognition into cellular defense. The broad outputs are pleiotropic, but mechanistically informative endpoints are ROS generation, membrane/ion responses, MAPK and transcriptional activation, stomatal defense, cell-wall callose deposition, and restriction of bacterial growth. FLS2 mutations abolish or greatly reduce flagellin responses and increase susceptibility, while functional receptor expression restores perception. (dunning2007identificationandmutational pages 1-2, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
Cui and colleagues used variable-angle TIRF microscopy, single-particle tracking, fluorescence-lifetime FRET, protein-proximity assays, fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy, and phosphosite mutants to connect FLS2 phosphorylation to nanoscale behavior. The phosphomimetic S938D receptor behaved broadly like wild-type FLS2, whereas non-phosphorylatable S938A lost much of the flg22-induced change in receptor lifetime and dynamics and supported weaker immunity. Importantly, all variants could still undergo FLS2–BAK1 heterodimerization, indicating that Ser938 phosphorylation acts mainly after or alongside co-receptor assembly rather than serving as an absolute assembly requirement. Version of record published 24 July 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91072.3. (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 4-5, cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 1-2)
After flg22 treatment, wild-type FLS2 and S938D increasingly associated with AtRem1.3-marked sterol-rich nanodomains; S938A showed little corresponding change. With 10 µM flg22, wild-type and S938D endocytic vesicles appeared by 15 minutes and increased at 30 and 60 minutes, whereas S938A produced few vesicles; reported vesicle-analysis differences reached p<0.001. The current interpretation is that Ser938 phosphorylation promotes sorting of active receptors into functional nanodomains, thereby supporting signaling and subsequent internalization. (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 4-5, cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 7-9)
Wang and colleagues showed that myosin XIK interacts directly with the kinase domains of FLS2 and BIK1 and associates with the nanodomain protein REM1.3. Genetic depletion of three myosin-XI proteins, pharmacological myosin inhibition, or actin disruption reduced FLS2–BIK1 and BAK1–BIK1 association but left ligand-induced FLS2–BAK1 recruitment comparatively intact. Loss of myosin XI abolished or diminished flg22-induced BIK1 phosphorylation, RBOHD Ser39 phosphorylation, ROS production, stomatal closure, and flg22-mediated protection against P. syringae. XIK complementation restored these defects. Published 14 June 2024 in PNAS; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2312415121. (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 3-4)
Single-particle measurements quantified the underlying organization. BIK1 and FLS2 clusters averaged 0.28±0.03 and 0.27±0.05 µm in diameter, with respective densities of 131.03±10.51 and 139.21±8.69 clusters per 100 µm². Approximately 60% of BIK1 clusters persisted for less than five seconds; 31% showed confined movement within 0.5 µm, compared with 80% of FLS2 particles. In the myosin-XI mutant, confined BIK1 decreased from 31% to 6%, and its immobile fraction fell from 14% to 3%. Myosin inhibition decreased the FLS2–BIK1 Pearson colocalization coefficient from 0.53±0.11 to 0.28±0.10. These measurements support an expert model in which myosin XIK is a molecular scaffold that immobilizes enough BIK1 near FLS2 to permit fast, robust signaling. (wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 4-5, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 5-7, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 7-8)
Lee and colleagues screened 22,618 compounds against purified FLS2 ectodomain; 84 displayed interaction signals, and downstream triage identified two synthetic weak agonists, Maya1 and Maya2. Maya2 bound FLS2 with Kd=8.56±3.07 µM, while a structurally related weak control had Kd=93.91±19.51 µM. Receptor mutagenesis showed that the synthetic ligands use partly different FLS2 residues from flg22, demonstrating that a single plant receptor can process chemically unrelated inputs. Accepted 1 November 2024 in Nature Communications; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54271-5. (lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 3-4, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 8-10, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 1-2)
Unlike flg22, Maya1/2 produced little BIK1 phosphorylation, ROS, or MAPK activation, although Maya2 modestly activated MAPKs at 15 minutes. Nevertheless, Maya1 regulated 156 FLS2-dependent genes in leaves and Maya2 regulated 113 in roots. Of the Maya1-responsive genes, 62.8% overlapped the flg22 program and 37.2% were Maya1-specific; for Maya2, 43.4% overlapped and 56.6% were specific. Pretreatment reduced P. syringae DC3000 growth by approximately tenfold in wild type but not in fls2, including protection against a flagellin-deficient bacterial strain. This demonstrates that a restricted transcriptional sector can be sufficient for antibacterial protection without fully reproducing canonical flg22 signaling. (lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 3-4, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 8-10, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 5-6)
FLS2 is widely implemented as an experimental system rather than as a mature commercial technology. Current uses include:
The main translational opportunity is to broaden microbial recognition or generate inducible chemical priming without constitutive defense activation. The principal constraints are pathogen variation in flg22, receptor/co-receptor compatibility across species, immune–growth trade-offs, receptor desensitization and turnover, and potential effects on beneficial microbiota. The 2024 biased-ligand work is particularly important because it suggests that protective transcription may be separable from energetically costly full-spectrum immune activation, but this remains a proof-of-concept hypothesis requiring crop, field, formulation, toxicology, and durability studies. (lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 3-4, lee2024reprogrammingofflagellin pages 5-6)
The assignment of Q9FL28/At5g46330 is exceptionally strong: genetic loss-of-function, direct ligand cross-linking, cross-species gain-of-function, high-resolution structural biology, mutagenesis, live-cell imaging, phosphoprotein assays, and pathogen challenges all converge on the same annotation. FLS2’s primary function can be stated with high confidence as plasma-membrane recognition of bacterial flagellin/flg22 and initiation of BAK1/BIK1-dependent antibacterial PTI. (sun2013structuralbasisfor pages 2-3, chinchilla2006thearabidopsisreceptor pages 1-2)
The current mechanistic model has shifted from a simple ligand–receptor switch to a spatially and temporally regulated signaling platform. Ligand binding determines specificity; BAK1 completes the active extracellular complex; prepositioned BIK1 couples the receptor to RBOHD and other intracellular targets; phosphorylation and nanodomain partitioning regulate signaling competence; and endocytosis/degradation terminate or reshape the response. The strongest recent conclusion is that membrane organization is itself part of FLS2 signal transduction, not merely a consequence of activation. (cui2024singlemoleculeanalysisreveals pages 1-2, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 7-8, wang2024myosinximediatedbik1 pages 1-2)
Remaining uncertainties include the complete physiological substrate repertoire of the FLS2 kinase, how signals are partitioned between plasma-membrane and endosomal compartments, the degree to which individual phosphosites act causally versus combinatorially, and whether biased small-molecule agonism can be converted into durable, economical crop protection. These limitations do not weaken the core annotation but define the main frontier for functional and translational research.
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