Crystal structure of a fungal elicitor secreted by Phytophthora cryptogea, a member of a novel class of plant necrotic proteins

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1429-1439

  Boissy, Guillaume ^a   De La Fortelle, Eric ^b   Kahn, Richard ^c   Huet, Jean Claude ^a   Bricogne, Gérard ^b,d   Pernollet, Jean Claude ^a   Brunie, Simone ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b MRC LMB   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

elicitin; multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD); plant pathogen; toxin; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA CRYPTOGEA; PYTHIUM;

EID: 0030589531     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00150-5     Document Type: Article

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