The tomato Fni3 Lysine-63-specific ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme and suv ubiquitin E2 variant positively regulate plant immunity

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3615-3631

  Mural, Ravi V ^a   Liu, Yao ^a   Rosebrock, Tracy R ^b,c,e   Brady, Jennifer J ^b,f   Hamera, Sadia ^a   Connor, Richard A ^a   Martin, Gregory B ^b,c,d   Zeng, Lirong ^a  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

FEN PROTEIN, LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TOBACCO; TOMATO; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; UBIQUITINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84886453661     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.117093     Document Type: Article

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