20 research outputs found
Lysozyme enhances the bactericidal effect of BP100 peptide against Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight of rosaceous plants
Rhizobium leguminosarum nodulation gene (nod) expression is lowered by an allele-specific mutation in the dicarboxylate transport gene dctB
A Novel Role of the Yeast CaaX Protease Ste24 in Chitin Synthesis
Ste24 is a membrane-integral CaaX metalloprotease of the ER and its only known substrate in yeast is the mating factor a. We describe a novel role for Ste24 in modulating chitin levels at the bud neck by delocalization of Chs3