Signal pathway included in elicitation of tobacco cells with ergosterol

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Authors	KAŠPAROVSKÝ Tomáš MIKEŠ Vladimír MILAT Marie-Louise
Year of publication	2002
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Book of abstracts of 6th Meeting of biochemists and molecular biologists
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Biochemistry
Keywords	ergosterol; elicitors; plant defense
Description	Ergosterol,if found in most fungi to be the major sterol. It binds to a putative receptor and triggers a defence reaction in tobacco cells (oxidative burst and pH changes of extracellular medium. The results indicate that ergosterol induces a mobilisation of internal calcium.
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