Innate immunity in plants and animals: Striking similarities and obvious differences

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 198, Issue , 2004, Pages 249-266

  Nürnberger, Thorsten ^a,b   Brunner, Frédéric ^a,b   Kemmerling, Birgit ^a,b   Piater, Lizelle ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1642463788     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.0119.x     Document Type: Review

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