Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

and to calcium ionophores and phorbol esters, which in combination elicited a full 'T cell–activation' response but individually could be used to distinguish signaling pathways activated by ...

New research has identified crucial components and mechanisms of the plant immune system, potentially helping to develop ...

Biologists have identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens ...

Previous studies revealed that genetically altering mice to lack calcium signaling in their immune system’s T cells resulted in dysfunction in one particular type of T cell—regulatory T cells ...

Previous studies revealed that genetically altering mice to lack calcium signaling in their immune system's T cells resulted in dysfunction in one particular type of T cell—regulatory T cells ...

When plants are infected by pathogens, they mount a two-phase immune response ... enables this weak calcium signal to spread from cell to cell without disrupting other signalling calcium-dependent ...

Figure 5: Vav-2 in BCR signaling and tyrosine phosphorylation in Vav-1 −/− Vav-2 −/− B cells. Figure 6: Vav-1 −/− Vav-2 −/− B cells do not mobilize calcium activated by BCR.