Dynamics in the Phytophthora capsici Effector AVR3a11 Confirm the Core WY Domain Fold

What is it about?

Infectious organisms inject specific proteins, called effectors, into cells when causing disease. We are looking at an effector from a plant disease, which gets injected into the cells of pepper, cucumber and squash plants as part of the process of causing blight. This effector is related to a protein from potato blight. We looked at how flexible different regions of this effector is, and comment that this can have implications for plant disease.

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