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SUBMITTER: Mak AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3572262 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mak Amanda Nga-Sze AN Bradley Philip P Bogdanove Adam J AJ Stoddard Barry L BL
Current opinion in structural biology 20121222 1
TAL effectors are proteins secreted by bacterial pathogens into plant cells, where they enter the nucleus and activate expression of individual genes. TAL effectors display a modular architecture that includes a central DNA-binding region comprising a tandem array of nearly identical repeats that are almost all 34 residues long. Residue number 13 in each TAL repeat (one of two consecutive polymorphic amino acids that are termed 'repeat variable diresidues', or 'RVDs') specifies the identity of a ...[more]