A lipid transfer protein binds to a receptor involved in the control of plant defence responses

• Authors: BUHOT N.; MIKEŠ Vladimír; DOULIEZ JP.; BLEIN JP.
• Year of publication: 2001
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: FEBS Letters
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Biochemistry
• Keywords: LTP; elicitin; defence reaction
• Description: Lipid transfer protein and elicitin are both able load a nd transfer liupids. We show that LTP1 binds with high affinity sites and these site are common to LTP1 and elicitins. The receptor can be represented by allosteric model with four identical subunits.

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