Comparative and functional analysis of the widely occurring family of Nep1-like proteins

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1081-1094

  Oome, Stan ^b   Van Den Ackerveken, Guido ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EID: 84907225537     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-14-0118-R     Document Type: Article

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