Taxonomic group: fungi /
Organ / tissue: cell wall
Publication DOI: 10.1515/revac-2012-0030Journal NLM ID: 101665910Publisher: Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter
Correspondence: hunthk
missouri.edu
Institutions: Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, Department of Biological Engineering, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Chitin, a small organic molecule commonly found in fungal cell walls and insect exoskeletons, has the ability to elicit an immune response in plants by binding to specific membrane-bound receptors. Understanding how plants detect and fend off deleterious fungi and insects will enable improved defense strategies against these pathogens. A wide array of techniques, including affinity binding studies, isothermal calorimetry, structural analysis, and molecular genomic methods have been used to identify and characterize chitin-binding receptors as well as the kinetic parameters of chitin-receptor interactions. There are a number of newly developed analytical technologies in mechanical, electrochemical, and optical biosensing that have great potential to further elucidate the interactions between chitin and its binding partners. In this review, we provide a detailed examination of the methods currently used to characterize chitin-binding interactions, along with emerging analytical techniques that have the potential to transform this area of study.
biosensors, N-acetyl-chitooligosaccharides, pathogen-associated molecular patterns
Structure type: structural motif or average structure
Location inside paper: Fig. 1
Trivial name: chitin
Compound class: cell wall polysaccharide, glucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_153212,IEDB_241099,IEDB_423114,IEDB_423150,SB_74,SB_85
Comments, role: review
Related record ID(s): 44855, 44856, 44877, 44889, 44913, 44915, 44916, 44917, 44923, 44925, 44940, 44941
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 4751Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G97099AY
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