The Pto kinase conferring resistance to tomato bacterial speck disease interacts with proteins that bind a cis-element of pathogenesis-related genes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3207-3218

  Zhou, Jianmin ^a   Tang, Xiaoyan ^a   Martin, Gregory B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Pathogenesis related protein; Protein protein interactions; Tomato; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; PLANT DNA; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030973457     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.11.3207     Document Type: Article

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