An avrPto/avrPtoB Mutant of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 Does Not Elicit Pto-Mediated Resistance and Is Less Virulent on Tomato

NC Lin, GB Martin - Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2005 - Am Phytopath Society
AvrPto and AvrPtoB are type III effector proteins expressed by Pseudomonas syringae pv.
tomato strain DC3000, a pathogen of both tomato and Arabidopsis spp. Each effector …

A cluster of mutations disrupt the avirulence but not the virulence function of AvrPto

L Shan, P He, JM Zhou, X Tang - Molecular Plant-Microbe …, 2000 - Am Phytopath Society
avrPto in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato encodes an avirulence protein that triggers
race-specific resistance in tomato plants carrying Pto. The AvrPto protein is secreted from P …

Diverse AvrPtoB Homologs from Several Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars Elicit Pto-Dependent Resistance and Have Similar Virulence Activities

NC Lin, RB Abramovitch, YJ Kim… - Applied and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
AvrPtoB is a type III effector protein from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that physically
interacts with the tomato Pto kinase and, depending on the host genotype, either elicits or …

Pto- and Prf-Mediated Recognition of AvrPto and AvrPtoB Restricts the Ability of Diverse Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars to Infect Tomato

NC Lin, GB Martin - Molecular plant-microbe interactions, 2007 - Am Phytopath Society
The molecular basis underlying the ability of pathogens to infect certain plant species and
not others is largely unknown. Pseudomonas syringae is a useful model species for …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrPtoB is phosphorylated in plant cells on serine 258, promoting its virulence activity

F Xiao, P Giavalisco, GB Martin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2007 - ASBMB
The Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato protein AvrPtoB is translocated into plant cells via
the bacterial type III secretion system. In resistant tomato leaves, AvrPtoB acts as an …

[PDF][PDF] Recognition specificity for the bacterial avirulence protein AvrPto is determined by Thr-204 in the activation loop of the tomato Pto kinase

RD Frederick, RL Thilmony, G Sessa, GB Martin - Molecular cell, 1998 - cell.com
The Pto kinase confers resistance in tomato to P. syringae pv. tomato strains expressing the
AvrPto protein. Physical interaction of the Pto kinase and AvrPto protein in the plant cell …

Host-Mediated Phosphorylation of Type III Effector AvrPto Promotes Pseudomonas Virulence and Avirulence in Tomato

JC Anderson, PE Pascuzzi, F Xiao, G Sessa… - The Plant …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The AvrPto protein from Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato is delivered into plant
cells by the bacterial type III secretion system, where it either promotes host susceptibility or …

Functional studies of the bacterial avirulence protein AvrPto by mutational analysis

JH Chang, CM Tobias, BJ Staskawicz… - Molecular plant …, 2001 - Am Phytopath Society
Pseudomonas syringae pathovars expressing avrPto are avirulent on plants expressing the
resistance gene Pto. Over 85 mutants of avrPto were generated with multiple strategies, and …

The Pseudomonas AvrPto protein is differentially recognized by tomato and tobacco and is localized to the plant plasma membrane

L Shan, VK Thara, GB Martin, JM Zhou, X Tang - The Plant Cell, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The avrPto gene of Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato triggers race-specific resistance in
tomato plants carrying Pto, a resistance gene encoding a protein kinase. When introduced …

The N‐terminal region of Pseudomonas type III effector AvrPtoB elicits Pto‐dependent immunity and has two distinct virulence determinants

F Xiao, P He, RB Abramovitch, JE Dawson… - The Plant …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance to bacterial speck disease in tomato is activated by the physical interaction of the
host Pto kinase with either of the sequence‐dissimilar type III effector proteins AvrPto or …