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Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins--leucine-rich repeat proteins in plant defence.
Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) - 1 Mar 2012
Maulik A, Sarkar A I, Devi S, Basu S
Abstract excerpt
Plant polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) belong to the leucine-rich repeat (LRR) family and are known to prevent pathogen invasion by inhibiting the plant cell wall degrading enzyme, polygalacturonase. Our study reveals that these multigene-encoded defence proteins found in flowering plants only exhibit identical domain architecture with 10 tandemly-arranged LRRs. This implies that variations of PGIP...
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