The role of lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan, two glycosylated bacterial microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs), in plant innate immunity

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-104

  Erbs, Gitte ^a   Newman, Mari Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PLANT IMMUNITY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLANT IMMUNITY; RECEPTORS, PATTERN RECOGNITION;

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

EID: 83055181512     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00730.x     Document Type: Review

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