The LCB2 subunit of the sphingolip biosynthesis enzyme serine palmitoyltransferase can function as an attenuator of the hypersensitive response and Bax-induced cell death

New Phytologist

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-146

  Gan, Yunzhe ^a   Zhang, Lisha ^a   Zhang, Zhengguang ^a   Dong, Suomeng ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Wang, Yuanchao ^a   Zheng, Xiaobo ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transient expression; Elicitor; Hypersensitive response (HR); Programmed cell death (PCD); Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS)

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; LEAFY VEGETABLE; OXYGEN; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. PEKINENSIS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA BOEHMERIAE; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RHIZOBIUM;

HARPIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PATHOGENESIS RELATED PROTEINS, PLANT; PATHOGENESIS-RELATED PROTEINS, PLANT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CELL DEATH; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BRASSICA; CELL DEATH; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE C-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

EID: 57449083882     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02642.x     Document Type: Article

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