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Synergistic Action of a Metalloprotease and a Serine Protease from Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Cleaves Chitin-Binding Tomato Chitinases, Reduces Their Antifungal Activity, and Enhances Fungal Virulence.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Sept 2015
Jashni Mansoor Karimi, Dols Ivo H M, Iida Yuichiro, Boeren Sjef, Beenen Henriek G, Mehrabi Rahim, Collemare Jérôme, de Wit Pierre J G M
Abstract excerpt
As part of their defense strategy against fungal pathogens, plants secrete chitinases that degrade chitin, the major structural component of fungal cell walls. Some fungi are not sensitive to plant chitinases because they secrete chitin-binding effector proteins that protect their cell wall again...
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