On the front line: Structural insights into plant-pathogen interactions

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 761-776

  Wirthmueller, Lennart ^a,b   Maqbool, Abbas ^a   Banfield, Mark J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

APOPLAST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PLANT CELL; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PYTHIUM; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84888007160     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3118     Document Type: Review

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