A Pathogen Type III Effector with a Novel E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Architecture

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Singer, Alexander U ^a   Schulze, Sebastian ^b   Skarina, Tatiana ^a   Xu, Xiaohui ^a   Cui, Hong ^a   Eschen Lippold, Lennart ^c   Egler, Monique ^b,e   Srikumar, Tharan ^d   Raught, Brian ^d   Lee, Justin ^c   Scheel, Dierk ^c   Savchenko, Alexei ^a   Bonas, Ulla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Scil Proteins GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; XOPL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PLANT IMMUNITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; UBIQUITINATION; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 84875074459     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003121     Document Type: Article

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