Team:KULeuven/24 July 2009

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Vanillin Receptor

Possible receptor is the VirA/VirG system from Agrobacterium, the VirA protein will bind to phenolic compounds and induce transcription of vir genes by phosphorylation of VirG. protein ChvE results in a broader response to phenolic compounds. papers:

http://mmbr.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/1/12 1 S C Winans, Two-way chemical signaling in Agrobacterium-plant interactions, Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 1992 March; 56(1): 12-31
http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/180/21/5632 2 Wen-Tao Peng, Yong-Woog Lee, and Eugene W. Nester, The Phenolic Recognition Profiles of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirA Protein Are Broadened by a High Level of the Sugar Binding Protein ChvE, Journal of Bacteriology, November 1998, p. 5632-5638, Vol. 180, No. 21

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