An immune signal can hide inside a precursor protein. 🌱
Phytocytokines are cut free by proteases - from proteins with related, unrelated, or unclear functions.
The challenge: predicting which protease acts where, when, and at which site.
Read more in our review:
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Plant endogenous peptides, termed phytocytokines, coordinate immune responses and mediate intercellular communication within and across plant tissues. While an expanding repertoire of ligands, recept...
