NLR-Associating Transcription Factor bHLH84 and Its Paralogs Function Redundantly in Plant Immunity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Fang ^a,b   Kapos, Paul ^a   Cheng, Yu Ti ^a   Li, Meng ^b   Zhang, Yuelin ^b,c   Li, Xin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; LUCIFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NLR PROTEIN; RPS4 PROTEIN; RSL2 PROTEIN; RSL4 PROTEIN; SNC1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BHLH84; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VECTOR PLASMID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ASSAY; EPISTASIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROTOPLAST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCORING SYSTEM; SEEDLING; UPREGULATION; YEAST HYBRID ASSAY; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84922272553     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004312     Document Type: Article

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