The C terminus of AvrXa10 can be replaced by the transcriptional activation domain of VP16 from the herpes simplex virus

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1665-1674

  Zhu, Weiguang ^a,b   Yang, Bing ^a   Wills, Nick ^a   Johnson, Lowell B ^a   White, Frank F ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; PROKARYOTA; SIMPLEXVIRUS; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE;

EID: 0033197509     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.9.1665     Document Type: Article

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