A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7166, 2007, Pages 115-118

  Whisson, Stephen C ^a   Boevink, Petra C ^a   Moleleki, Lucy ^a   Avrova, Anna O ^a   Morales, Juan G ^a   Gilroy, Eleanor M ^a   Armstrong, Miles R ^a   Grouffaud, Severine ^a,b   Van West, Pieter ^b   Chapman, Sean ^a   Hein, Ingo ^a   Toth, Ian K ^a   Pritchard, Leighton ^a   Birch, Paul R J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEUCINE; OOMYCETE EFFECTOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AVR3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOLOGY; GENOME; HOST PLANT; INFECTIVITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROTEIN; PROTIST; SIGNAL; TRANSLOCATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HAUSTORIUM; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT CELL; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS;

EID: 35948991117     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06203     Document Type: Article

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