Sentences with phrase «defense effector proteins»

5/24/2007 How Plague - Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system.

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Since their first work together in 2000, Collmer and Martin have sought to tease apart the interactions between effectors and plant defense proteins, to understand how and when the plant's immune system responds.

Over evolutionary time, the bacterial and plant populations have engaged in an arms race, where the bacteria evolve new effector proteins to help them sneak in, while the plant acquires new defense proteins to uncover and respond to the attack.

In the second line of defense, the plant uses defense proteins inside the cell to detect the bacterial effectors and sound the alarm.