Genetic and molecular evidence that the Pseudomonas syringae type III effector protein AvrRpt2 is a cysteine protease

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1537-1546

  Axtell, Michael J ^a,b   Chisholm, Stephen T ^a   Dahlbeck, Douglas ^a   Staskawicz, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PSEUDOMONAS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 0141566396     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03666.x     Document Type: Article

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