Retooling plant immunity for resistance to blast fungi

Emerging principles in the design of bioengineered made-to-order plant immune receptors

Author(s): Clemence Marchal, Hsuan Pai, Sophien Kamoun, Jiorgos Kourelis
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 70, 2023, Page(s) 102311, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102311

Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface toward a conserved fungal pathogen effector

Author(s): Rafał Zdrzałek, Yuxuan Xi, Thorsten Langner, Adam R. Bentham, Yohann Petit-Houdenot, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Adeline Harant, Motoki Shimizu, Vincent Were, Nicholas J. Talbot, Ryohei Terauchi, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J. Banfield
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2402872121

A blast fungus zinc-finger fold effector binds to a hydrophobic pocket in host Exo70 proteins to modulate immune recognition in rice

Author(s): Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Koki Fujisaki, Adam R. Bentham, Neftaly Cruz Mireles, Victor Sanchez de Medina Hernandez, Motoki Shimizu, David M. Lawson, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi, Mark J. Banfield
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 119, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210559119

A genetically linked pair of NLR immune receptors shows contrasting patterns of evolution

Author(s): Motoki Shimizu, Akiko Hirabuchi, Yu Sugihara, Akira Abe, Takumi Takeda, Michie Kobayashi, Yukie Hiraka, Eiko Kanzaki, Kaori Oikawa, Hiromasa Saitoh, Thorsten Langner, Mark J. Banfield, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 119, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116896119

Two NLR immune receptors acquired high-affinity binding to a fungal effector through convergent evolution of their integrated domain

Author(s): Aleksandra Białas, Thorsten Langner, Adeline Harant, Mauricio P Contreras, Clare EM Stevenson, David M Lawson, Jan Sklenar, Ronny Kellner, Matthew J Moscou, Ryohei Terauchi, Mark J Banfield, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: eLife, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.66961

Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

Author(s): Josephine HR Maidment, Motoki Shimizu, Adam R Bentham, Sham Vera, Marina Franceschetti, Apinya Longya, Clare EM Stevenson, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Aleksandra Białas, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi, Mark J Banfield
Published in: eLife, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.81123

RefPlantNLR is a comprehensive collection of experimentally validated plant disease resistance proteins from the NLR family

Author(s): Jiorgos Kourelis, Toshiyuki Sakai, Hiroaki Adachi, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 19, 2021, Page(s) e3001124, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001124

Functional diversification gave rise to allelic specialization in a rice NLR immune receptor pair

Author(s): Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Javier Vega Benjumea, Aleksandra Bialas, Ryohei Terauchi, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J Banfield
Published in: eLife, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.71662

NLR receptors in plant immunity: making sense of the alphabet soup

Author(s): Mauricio P Contreras, Daniel Lüdke, Hsuan Pai, AmirAli Toghani, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: EMBO reports, Issue 24, 2023, ISSN 1469-221X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.15252/embr.202357495

The rice NLR pair Pikp-1/Pikp-2 initiates cell death through receptor cooperation rather than negative regulation

Author(s): Rafał Zdrzałek, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi, Hiromasa Saitoh, Mark J Banfield
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.20.162834

The coming of age of EvoMPMI: evolutionary molecular plant–microbe interactions across multiple timescales

Author(s): Jessica L Upson, Erin K Zess, Aleksandra Białas, Chih-hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 44, 2018, Page(s) 108-116, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.03.003

Cautionary Notes on Use of the MoT3 Diagnostic Assay for Magnaporthe oryzae Wheat and Rice Blast Isolates

Author(s): Dipali Rani Gupta, Claudia Sarai Reyes Avila, Joe Win, Darren M. Soanes, Lauren S. Ryder, Daniel Croll, Pallab Bhattacharjee, Md. Shaid Hossain, Nur Uddin Mahmud, Md. Shabab Mehebub, Musrat Zahan Surovy, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Nicholas J. Talbot, Sophien Kamoun, M. Tofazzal Islam
Published in: Phytopathology, Issue 109/4, 2019, Page(s) 504-508, ISSN 0031-949X
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
DOI: 10.1094/phyto-06-18-0199-le

Uncoiling CNLs: Structure/function approaches to understanding CC domain function in plant NLRs

Author(s): Adam R Bentham, Rafał Zdrzałek, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Mark J Banfield
Published in: Plant and Cell Physiology, 2018, ISSN 0032-0781
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcy185

Lessons in Effector and NLR Biology of Plant-Microbe Systems

Author(s): Aleksandra Białas, Erin K. Zess, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Marina Franceschetti, Helen G. Pennington, Kentaro Yoshida, Jessica L. Upson, Emilie Chanclud, Chih-Hang Wu, Thorsten Langner, Abbas Maqbool, Freya A. Varden, Lida Derevnina, Khaoula Belhaj, Koki Fujisaki, Hiromasa Saitoh, Ryohei Terauchi, Mark J. Banfield, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Issue 31/1, 2018, Page(s) 34-45, ISSN 0894-0282
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-17-0196-fi

Gene duplication and mutation in the emergence of a novel aggressive allele of the AVR-Pik effector in the rice blast fungus

Author(s): Apinya Longya, Chaivarakun Chaipanya, Marina Franceschetti, Josephine H.R. Maidment, Mark James Banfield, Chatchawan Jantasuriyarat
Published in: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2019, ISSN 0894-0282
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-09-18-0245-r

CRISPR Crops: Plant Genome Editing Toward Disease Resistance

Author(s): Thorsten Langner, Sophien Kamoun, Khaoula Belhaj
Published in: Annual Review of Phytopathology, Issue 56/1, 2018, Page(s) 479-512, ISSN 0066-4286
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080417-050158

Plant health emergencies demand open science: Tackling a cereal killer on the run

Author(s): Sophien Kamoun, Nicholas J. Talbot, M. Tofazzal Islam
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 17/6, 2019, Page(s) e3000302, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000302

An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species

Author(s): Hiroaki Adachi, Mauricio P Contreras, Adeline Harant, Chih-hang Wu, Lida Derevnina, Toshiyuki Sakai, Cian Duggan, Eleonora Moratto, Tolga O Bozkurt, Abbas Maqbool, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: eLife, Issue 8, 2019, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.49956

Protein engineering expands the effector recognition profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

Author(s): Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Marina Franceschetti, Dan MacLean, Ryohei Terauchi, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J Banfield
Published in: eLife, Issue 8, 2019, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.47713

Overcoming plant blindness in science, education, and society

Author(s): Sarah B. Jose, Chih‐Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Issue 1/3, 2019, Page(s) 169-172, ISSN 2572-2611
Publisher: New Phytologist
DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.51

NLR singletons, pairs, and networks: evolution, assembly, and regulation of the intracellular immunoreceptor circuitry of plants

Author(s): Hiroaki Adachi, Lida Derevnina, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 50, 2019, Page(s) 121-131, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.04.007

Cross-reactivity of a rice NLR immune receptor to distinct effectors from the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae provides partial disease resistance

Author(s): Freya A. Varden, Hiromasa Saitoh, Kae Yoshino, Marina Franceschetti, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi, Mark J. Banfield
Published in: Journal of Biological Chemistry, Issue 294/35, 2019, Page(s) 13006-13016, ISSN 0021-9258
Publisher: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc.
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.007730

A global surveillance system for crop diseases

Author(s): M. Carvajal-Yepes, K. Cardwell, A. Nelson, K. A. Garrett, B. Giovani, D. G. O. Saunders, S. Kamoun, J. P. Legg, V. Verdier, J. Lessel, R. A. Neher, R. Day, P. Pardey, M. L. Gullino, A. R. Records, B. Bextine, J. E. Leach, S. Staiger, J. Tohme
Published in: Science, Issue 364/6447, 2019, Page(s) 1237-1239, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1572

Pyricularia graminis-tritici is not the correct species name for the wheat blast fungus: response to Ceresini et al . (MPP 20:2)

Author(s): Barbara Valent, Mark Farman, Yukio Tosa, Dominik Begerow, Elisabeth Fournier, Pierre Gladieux, M. Tofazzal Islam, Sophien Kamoun, Martin Kemler, Linda M. Kohn, Marc-Henri Lebrun, Jason E. Stajich, Nicholas J. Talbot, Ryohei Terauchi, Didier Tharreau, Ning Zhang
Published in: Molecular Plant Pathology, Issue 20/2, 2019, Page(s) 173-179, ISSN 1464-6722
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12778

Polymorphic residues in rice NLRs expand binding and response to effectors of the blast pathogen

Author(s): Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Marina Franceschetti, Abbas Maqbool, Hiromasa Saitoh, Ryohei Terauchi, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J. Banfield
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 4/8, 2018, Page(s) 576-585, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0194-x

The Blast Fungus Decoded: Genomes in Flux

Author(s): Thorsten Langner, Aleksandra Białas, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: mBio, Issue 9/2, 2018, Page(s) e00571-18, ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher: ASM
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00571-18

Allelic compatibility in plant immune receptors facilitates engineering of new effector recognition specificities

Author(s): Adam R Bentham, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Javier Vega Benjumea, Jiorgos Kourelis, Sally Jones, Melanie Mendel, Jack Stubbs, Clare E M Stevenson, Josephine H R Maidment, Mark Youles, Rafał Zdrzałek, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J Banfield
Published in: The Plant Cell, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 3809-3827, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad204

NLR immune receptor–nanobody fusions confer plant disease resistance

Author(s): Jiorgos Kourelis, Clemence Marchal, Andres Posbeyikian, Adeline Harant, Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Science, Issue 379, 2024, Page(s) 934-939, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abn4116

The blast pathogen effector AVR-Pik binds and stabilizes rice heavy metal-associated (HMA) proteins to co-opt their function in immunity

Author(s): Kaori Oikawa, Koki Fujisaki, Motoki Shimizu, Takumi Takeda, Keiichiro Nemoto, Hiromasa Saitoh, Akiko Hirabuchi, Yukie Hiraka, Naomi Miyaji, Aleksandra Białas, Thorsten Langner, Ronny Kellner, Tolga O Bozkurt, Stella Cesari, Thomas Kroj, Mark J Banfield, Sophien Kamoun, Ryohei Terauchi
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.01.406389

Ten things we learned in 2010-2019 (aside from everything else)

Author(s): Kamoun, Sophien
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3613856

How to select a PhD lab?

Author(s): Kamoun, Sophien
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3531916

Open science to tackle a cereal killer on the run

Author(s): Sophien Kamoun; Nicholas J. Talbot; M. Tofazzal Islam
Published in: Issue 2, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2582429

Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

Author(s): JHR Maidment, M Shimizu, S Vera, M Franceschetti, A Longya, CEM Stevenson, JC De la Concepcion, A Białas, S Kamoun, R Terauchi, MJ Banfield
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.14.496076

New effectors from the multihost blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae target HMA domain containing host proteins

Author(s): Yohann Petit; Joe Win; Thorsten Langner; Adeline Harant; Ryohei Terauchi; Mark Banfield; Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3352211

The dark matter of genomics: mini-chromosomes as drivers of host adaptation in the blast fungus

Author(s): Thorsten Langner; Luis B. Gomez-Luciano; Adeline Harant; Joe Win; Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3349735

A widely conserved N-terminal motif in the coiled-coil domain of NLR immune receptors is required for activation of hypersensitive cell death

Author(s): Hiroaki Adachi; Mauricio Contreras; Adeline Harant; Chih-hang Wu; Lida Derevnina; Toshiyuki Sakai; Cian Duggan; Eleonora Moratto; Tolga O Bozkurt; Abbas Maqbool; Joe Win; Sophien Kamoun
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3349849

Stranger in a strange land: the experiences of immigrant researchers

Author(s): Sophien Kamoun, Rosa Lozano-Durán, Luay Nakhleh
Published in: Genome Biology, Issue 18/1, 2017, ISSN 1474-760X
Publisher: BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1370-4

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