Identification of putative TAL effector targets of the citrus canker pathogens shows functional convergence underlying disease development and defense response

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pereira, Andre L A ^a   Carazzolle, Marcelo F ^a,b   Abe, Valeria Y ^a   de Oliveira, Maria L P ^a,c   Domingues, Mariane N ^a   Silva, Jaqueline C ^a   Cernadas, Raul A ^a,d   Benedetti, Celso E ^a  

^a BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c U S HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Department of Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Citrus canker; PthA; PthC; TAL effectors; Target genes; Xanthomonas aurantifolii; Xanthomonas citri

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CITRUS CANKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIME (FRUIT); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEET ORANGE; VALIDATION PROCESS; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS AURANTIFOLII; XANTHOMONAS CITRI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS; CITRUS AURANTIIFOLIA; CITRUS LIMON; CITRUS SINENSIS; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CITRI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 84897526338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-157     Document Type: Article

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