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IMPa-4, an Arabidopsis importin alpha isoform, is preferentially involved in agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation.
The Plant cell - 1 Oct 2008
Bhattacharjee Saikat, Lee Lan-Ying, Oltmanns Heiko, Cao Hongbin, Veena, Cuperus Joshua, Gelvin Stanton B
Abstract excerpt
Successful transformation of plants by Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires that the bacterial T-complex actively escorts T-DNA into the host's nucleus. VirD2 and VirE2 are virulence proteins on the T-complex that have plant-functional nuclear localization signal sequences that may recruit importin alpha proteins of the plant for nuclear import. In this study, we evaluated the involvement of seven of the nine...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Bacterial Proteins
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Karyopherins
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Protein Interaction Mapping
- Protein Isoforms
- Protein Sorting Signals