Plant BiologybioRxiv
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…·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.
DOI 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100371