A maritime pine antimicrobial peptide involved in ammonium nutrition

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1443-1453

  Canales, Javier ^a   Avila, Concepción ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

barrelins; Ammonium uptake; Nitrogen metabolism; Pinus; Plant antimicrobial protein

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT RNA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMMONIUM; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONIFEROUS TREE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; INHIBITION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTIDE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT DEFENSE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; SCOTS PINE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TREES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 80051595857     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02343.x     Document Type: Article

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