title: Common and contrasting themes of plant and animal diseases.
abstract: Recent studies in bacterial pathogenesis reveal common and contrasting mechanisms of pathogen virulence and host resistance in plant and animal diseases. This review presents recent developments in the study of plant and animal pathogenesis, with respect to bacterial colonization and the delivery of effector proteins to the host. Furthermore, host defense responses in both plants and animals are discussed in relation to mechanisms of pathogen recognition and defense signaling. Future studies will greatly add to our understanding of the molecular events defining host-pathogen interactions.
authors: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. stask@nature.berkeley.edu
authors: B J
authors: BJ
authors: Staskawicz
authors: M B
authors: MB
authors: Mudgett
authors: J L
authors: JL
authors: Dangl
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Galan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D017343:Genes, Plant; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology*; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011506:Proteins