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Targeting Cysteine Thiols for in Vitro Site-specific Glycosylation of Recombinant Proteins
Published on: October 4, 2017
New kids on the block-cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases in pattern-triggered immunity
Julia Krasensky-Wrzaczek1, Michael Wrzaczek2
1Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Plant-specific receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) are essential for pathogen recognition during pattern-triggered immunity. Together with coreceptors and associated proteins, they act as bona fide immune receptors, perceiving a variety of microbe-associated molecular patterns or damage-associated molecular patterns. The cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases (CRKs) form one of the biggest subgroups of RLKs, but so far, their ligands have not been identified. It has been shown that CRKs play important roles in plant immunity and defense responses as well as in response to abiotic stimuli and in control of plant development. However, molecular information on how CRKs integrate with the known framework of signaling components controlling early defense responses remains enigmatic.
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