{
  "id": 12878043,
  "title": "A sunflower FLS2 guides reconstruction of recognition of a Xanthomonas flg22 escape variant across divergent FLS2 receptors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/a-sunflower-fls2-guides-reconstruction-of-recognition-of-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.07.757162v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "FLS2-mediated perception of the bacterial flagellin epitope flg22 is frequently compromised by pathogen sequence variation, and Val14-containing Xanthomonas flg22 variants remain unrecognized by multiple characterized expanded-recognition FLS2 homologues. Using AlphaFold 3-based structural screening of 256 natural FLS2 homologues against the flg22 epitope from Xanthomonas campestris pv.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}