Ménage à trois: The complex relationships between mitogen-activated protein kinases, WRKY transcription factors, and VQ-motif-containing proteins

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Weyhe, Martin ^a   Eschen Lippold, Lennart ^a   Pecher, Pascal ^a   Scheel, Dierk ^a   Lee, Justin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defence; Immunity; Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK); Pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP); Phosphorylation; Signalling; VQ motif containing proteins (VQP); WRKY

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84924260840     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.29519     Document Type: Article

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