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Signal quenching, detoxification and mineralization of vir gene-inducing phenolics by the VirH2 protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 2004
Brencic Anja, Eberhard Anatol, Winans Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
Plant tumorigenesis by Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires approximately 20 Vir proteins, transcription of which is induced by a family of phenolic compounds released from plant wound sites. One Vir protein, VirH2, plays a role in the metabolism of at least one phenolic inducer inasmuch as it converts ferulic acid, a potent vir gene inducer, to the non-inducer caffeate by O-demethylation of a methoxyl group. Here,...
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