Pto Kinase Binds Two Domains of AvrPtoB and Its Proximity to the Effector E3 Ligase Determines if It Evades Degradation and Activates Plant Immunity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Mathieu, Johannes ^a   Schwizer, Simon ^a,b   Martin, Gregory B ^a,b  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVRPTO PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FEN PROTEIN, LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PTO PROTEIN, LYCOPERSICON; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TOMATO; UBIQUITINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEOLYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84905408436     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004227     Document Type: Article

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