A NOVEL CLASS OF ELICITIN-LIKE GENES FROM PHYTOPHTHORA-INFESTANS

Authors
KAMOUN S LINDQVIST H GOVERS F
Citation
S. Kamoun et al., A NOVEL CLASS OF ELICITIN-LIKE GENES FROM PHYTOPHTHORA-INFESTANS, Molecular plant-microbe interactions, 10(8), 1997, pp. 1028-1030
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology",Biology
Journal title
Molecular plant-microbe interactions → ACNP
ISSN journal
08940282
Volume
10
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1028 - 1030
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-0282(1997)10:8<1028:ANCOEG>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Elicitins are a family of structurally related proteins that induce hy persensitive response in specific plant species. Two Phytophthora infe stans cDNAs, inf2A and inf2B, potentially encoding novel elicitin-like proteins, were isolated from a cDNA library made from infected potato tissue. Multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses of 19 elicitins and elicitin-like proteins from nine Phytophthora spp. and f rom Pythium vexans suggest that there are at least five distinct class es within the elicitin family.