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Immunity: Flagellin seen from all sides

Nature Plants volume 2, Article number: 16136 (2016) Cite this article

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Many plants detect bacteria by the receptor FLS2 that binds the flagellin epitope flg22. A new pattern recognition receptor FLS3 in tomato detects flagellin from a second side; a further move in the evolutionary game of ‘hide and seek’ where pathogens evade recognition and hosts evolve novel immunoreceptors to detect them.

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Figure 1: Distinct epitopes of flagellin are recognized by different PRRs from plants and animals.

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  1. Judith Fliegmann and Georg Felix are at the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.,

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Fliegmann, J., Felix, G. Immunity: Flagellin seen from all sides. Nature Plants 2, 16136 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.136

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