Substrate specificity and antifungal activity of recombinant tobacco class I chitinases

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 609-618

  Suarez, Vivian ^a   Staehelin, Christian ^b   Arango, Rafael ^a   Holtorf, Hauke ^a   Hofsteenge, Jan ^a   Meins Jr , Frederick ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chitinases; Endochitinases; N. sylvestris; Nicotiana tabacum; Rhizobium; Trichoderma viride

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CHITINASE; DEFENSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMIC HYDROLYSIS; GENE DELETION; LYSOZYME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT DEFENSE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

CATALYSIS; CHITIN; ENZYMES; FUNGI; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

PATHOGENS;

TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITIN; CHITINASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0034987652     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010619421524     Document Type: Article

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