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Plant Cell, Vol. 10, 1833-1846, November 1998, Copyright © 1998, American Society of Plant Physiologists

Receptor-like Genes in the Major Resistance Locus of Lettuce Are Subject to Divergent Selection

Blake C. Meyersa, Katherine A. Shena, Pejman Rohania, Brandon S. Gautb, and Richard W. Michelmorea
a Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, California 95616
b Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2525

Correspondence to: Richard W. Michelmore, rwmichelmore{at}ucdavis.edu (E-mail), 530-752-9659 (fax).

Disease resistance genes in plants are often found in complex multigene families. The largest known cluster of disease resistance specificities in lettuce contains the RGC2 family of genes. We compared the sequences of nine full-length genomic copies of RGC2 representing the diversity in the cluster to determine the structure of genes within this family and to examine the evolution of its members. The transcribed regions range from at least 7.0 to 13.1 kb, and the cDNAs contain deduced open reading frames of ~5.5 kb. The predicted RGC2 proteins contain a nucleotide binding site and irregular leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) that are characteristic of resistance genes cloned from other species. Unique features of the RGC2 gene products include a bipartite LRR region with >40 repeats. At least eight members of this family are transcribed. The level of sequence diversity between family members varied in different regions of the gene. The ratio of nonsynonymous (Ka) to synonymous (Ks) nucleotide substitutions was lowest in the region encoding the nucleotide binding site, which is the presumed effector domain of the protein. The LRR-encoding region showed an alternating pattern of conservation and hypervariability. This alternating pattern of variation was also found in all comparisons within families of resistance genes cloned from other species. The Ka /Ks ratios indicate that diversifying selection has resulted in increased variation at these codons. The patterns of variation support the predicted structure of LRR regions with solvent-exposed hypervariable residues that are potentially involved in binding pathogen-derived ligands.




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