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The alteration of plant morphology by small peptides released from the proteolytic processing of the bacterial peptide TENGU.
Plant physiology - 1 Aug 2013
Sugawara Kyoko, Honma Youhei, Komatsu Ken, Himeno Misako, Oshima Kenro, Namba Shigetou
Abstract excerpt
Phytoplasmas are insect-borne plant pathogenic bacteria that alter host morphology. TENGU, a small peptide of 38 residues, is a virulence factor secreted by phytoplasmas that induces dwarfism and witches' broom in the host plant. In this study, we demonstrate that plants process TENGU in order to generate small functional peptides. First, virus vector-mediated transient expression demonstrated that the...
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