Structural and functional analysis of a plant resistance protein TIR domain reveals interfaces for self-association, signaling, and autoregulation

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 200-211

  Bernoux, Maud ^a   Ve, Thomas ^b   Williams, Simon ^b   Warren, Christopher ^a   Hatters, Danny ^c   Valkov, Eugene ^b   Zhang, Xiaoxiao ^b   Ellis, Jeffrey G ^a   Kobe, Bostjan ^b   Dodds, Peter N ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLAX; LINSEED; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLAX; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; MELAMPSORA LINI;

EID: 79952643473     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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