Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$285,957.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Innate immune mechanisms are conserved in evolution. The NPR1 protein of Arabidopsis is a master regulator of gene expression in plant defense. Similar to the mammalian immuno- regulator NF-kB, the NPR1 protein is nuclear translocated upon induction. In t