Agrobacterium tumefaciens recognizes its host environment using ChvE to bind diverse plant sugars as virulence signals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 678-683

  Hu, Xiaozhen ^a,b   Zhao, Jinlei ^a   DeGrado, William F ^a,b   Binns, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Host recognition; Protein crystallization; Sugar binding protein; Sugar binding specificity

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; CHROMOSOMAL VIRULENCE PROTEIN E; GALACTOSE; GALACTURONIC ACID; GLUCURONIC ACID; MONOSACCHARIDE; SUGAR; SUGAR ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALORIMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONOSACCHARIDES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOLS; PROTEIN BINDING; SUGAR ACIDS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; VIR;

EID: 84872195609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215033110     Document Type: Article

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