Osmotin, a plant antifungal protein, subverts signal transduction to enhance fungal cell susceptibility

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 807-817

  Yun, Dae Jin ^a   Ibeas, José Ignacio ^b   Lee, Hyeseung ^b   Coca, María A ^b   Narasimhan, Meena L ^b   Uesono, Yukifumi ^c   Hasegawa, Paul M ^b   Pardo, José M ^d   Bressan, Ray A ^b  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A MATING FACTOR; A-MATING FACTOR; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYTOTOXIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; OSMOTIN PROTEIN, NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SST2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DEATH; CELL WALL; CYTOTOXINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHEROMONES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032059804     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80080-5     Document Type: Article

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