Arabidopsis heterotrimeric G-proteins play a critical role in host and nonhost resistance against Pseudomonas syringae pathogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Seonghee ^a   Rojas, Clemencia M ^a   Ishiga, Yasuhiro ^a   Pandey, Sona ^b   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA1; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA2; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA3; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT STOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. MACULICOLA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TABACI; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 84891954722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082445     Document Type: Article

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