A single amino acid insertion in the WRKY domain of the Arabidopsis TIR-NBS-LRR-WRKY-type disease resistance protein SLH1 (sensitive to low humidity 1) causes activation of defense responses and hypersensitive cell death

Plant Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 873-888

  Noutoshi, Yoshiteru ^a,b   Ito, Takuya ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^a,c   Nakashita, Hideo ^d   Yoshida, Shigeo ^d   Marco, Yves ^e   Shirasu, Ken ^b   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a,c,f  

^a RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^f Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell death; Lesion mimic mutant; R genes; Salicylic acid; Transcription factor and global transcription

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; GELS; PROTEINS; SOILS;

CELL DEATH; LESION MIMIC MUTANTS; R GENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AND GLOBAL TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SALICYLIC ACID; SOIL;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SLH1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMIDITY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 32944465711     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02500.x     Document Type: Article

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