Lipid elicitors of plant defense reaction
| Title in English | Lipid elicitors of plant defese reaction |
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Book of Abstracts of 7th Meeting of WG |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Biochemistry |
| Keywords | elicitors; lipids; plant defense |
| Description | Low molecular lipid substances represent specific elicitors of plant defence reaction. We studied the elicitation mechanism by means of several inhibitors of calcium channels (La3+, verapamil, nifedipin, TMB-8 and ruthenium red) and fluorescence confocal microscopy with calcium green and compared the effect on the signal pathways induced by cryptogein, a typical fungal proteinaceous elicitor the receptor of which is localized on the plasma membrane, with ergosterol. The results suggest that the binding of ergosterol to an unknown receptor results in a mobilization of internal calcium stores (probably IP3 dependent) rather than in the effect on the plasma membrane channels. |
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