Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are activated in plants during responses to pathogens or to pathogen-derived elicitors and mediate intracellular stress responses. Here, we show that a rice (Oryza sativa) MAPK, OsMAPK6, was posttranslationally activated in a cell culture by a sphingolipid elicitor. Suppression of OsMAPK6 expression by RNA interference resulted in a strong reduct...

background and objectives: accurate designation of antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the infecting microorganisms is an important crucial factor in making appropriate therapeutic decisions. macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin b antibiotics are in a family, reserved as an alternative approach in treatment of resistant gram positive cocci. amongst them, clindamycin has been considered ...

Pseudomonas is a ubiquitous and ambiguous opportunistic pathogen, plays an important ecological role in the ocean. Here, new species, phage vB_PsaP_M1, described, which was isolated from surface coastal waters of Qingdao, China. vB_PsaP_M1 contains linear, double-stranded 89,387-bp genome with GC content 41.04% encoding 184 putative open reading frames (ORFs). There were 50 conservative domains...