Glycoconjugates as elicitors or suppressors of plant innate immunity

Glycobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 406-419

  Silipo, Alba ^a   Erbs, Gitte ^a,b   Shinya, Tomonori ^c   Maxwell Dow, J ^d   Parrilli, Michelangelo ^a   Lanzetta, Rosa ^a   Shibuya, Naoto ^c   Newman, Mari Anne ^b   Molinaro, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Glycomics; Lipopolysaccharide; MAMPs; Peptidoglycan; Plant innate immunity

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDE; ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; BACTERIUM; CELL WALL; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANTIGENS; BACTERIA; BETA-GLUCANS; CELL WALL; CHITIN; GLUCANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RECEPTORS, PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 77952314594     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp201     Document Type: Review

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