Article
Sensitivity of different ecotypes and mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana toward the bacterial elicitor flagellin correlates with the presence of receptor-binding sites.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 7 Dec 2001
Bauer Z, Gómez-Gómez L, Boller T, Felix G
Abstract excerpt
Flagellin, the main building block of the bacterial flagellum, acts as potent elicitor of defense responses in different plant species. Genetic analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana identified two distinct loci, termed FLS1 and FLS2, that are essential for perception of flagellin-derived elicitors. FLS2 was found to encode a leucine-rich repeat transmembrane receptor-like kinase with similarities to Toll-like...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis
- Binding Sites
- Flagellin
- Genes, Plant
- Kinetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Species Specificity