Multiple variants of the blast fungus effector AVR-Pik bind the HMA domain of the rice protein OsHIPP19 with high affinity.
J. H. R. Maidment, M. Franceschetti, A. Maqbool, H. Saitoh, C. Jantasuriyarat, S. Kamoun, R. Terauchi, M. J. Banfield
The paper identifies how multiple AVR-Pik variants bind OsHIPP19 with high affinity, revealing structural differences that enhance binding compared to Pik-1's HMA domain.
bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2020Plant Biology