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Research Findings

Inst. of Plant and Microbial Biology - 賴爾珉 Lai, Erh-Min

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Wang SC, Chen AP, Chou SJ, Kuo CH*, and Lai EM*. Soil Inoculation and Blocker-Mediated Sequencing Show Effects of the Antibacterial T6SS on Agrobacterial Tumorigenesis and Gallobiome. MBIO. , 2023. [JCR]
Ali J., Lai EM*. Distinct TssA proteins converge in coordinating tail biogenesis of the type VI secretion systems. BIOESSAYS. , 2022-11-20. [JCR]　[WOS]
Yen HC, Wang SC, Chen WM, Lai EM*, and Kuo CH*. Complete genome sequence of Sphingomonas sp. strain R1, a bacterium isolated from tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ). Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(7), e00242-24, 2024-07-18. [JCR]　[WOS]
Santos MNM, Pintor KL, Hsieh PY, Cheung YW, Sung LK, Shih YL, and Lai EM*. Agrobacteria deploy two classes of His-Me finger superfamily nuclease effectors exerting different antibacterial capacities against specific bacterial competitors. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15:1351590, 1-13, 2024-02-14. [JCR]　[WOS]
Salazar John Raymond B., Santos Mary Nia M.*, Palaad Jeremy L., Yen Hsi-Ching, Castellano Jose Louis A., dela Peña Leobert D., Amar Edgar C., Lai Erh-Min, Kuo Chih-Horng*. Complete genome sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain PH1273, isolated from aquacultured shrimp in the Philippines. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 12(11), 1-3, 2023-11-16. [JCR]　[WOS]
Weisberg Alexandra J.*, Wu Yu, Chang Jeff H., Lai Erh-Min, Kuo Chih-Horng*. Virulence and Ecology of Agrobacteria in the Context of Evolutionary Genomics. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 61(1), 1-23, 2023-09-05. [JCR]　[WOS]
Ali Jemal, Yu Manda, Sung Li‐Kang, Cheung Yee‐Wai, Lai Erh‐Min*. A glycine zipper motif is required for the translocation of a T6SS toxic effector into target cells. EMBO reports. 24(6):e56849, 1-16, 2023-04-17. [JCR]　[WOS]
Chou L, Lin YC, Haryono M, Santos MNM, Cho ST, Weisberg AJ, Wu CF, Lai EM, Chang JH, Kuo CH*. Modular evolution of secretion systems and virulence plasmids in a bacterial species complex. BMC BIOLOGY. 20:16, 1-20, 2022-01-13. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wu CF, Weisberg AJ, Davis II EW, Chou L, Khan S, Lai EM, Kuo CH, and Chang JH*. Diversification of the Type VI Secretion System in Agrobacteria. MBIO. 12(5), e01927-21, 2021-09. [JCR]　[WOS]
Yu Manda, Wang Yi-Chieh, Huang Ching-Jou, Ma Lay-Sun, Lai Erh-Min*. Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Versatile Antibacterial Strategy to Increase its Competitiveness. Journal of Bacteriology. 203(3):, e00490-20, 2021-01. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin Hsiao-Han, Filloux Alain, Lai Erh-Min*. Role of Recipient Susceptibility Factors During Contact-Dependent Interbacterial Competition. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11, 603652, 2020-11. [JCR]　[WOS]
Hsiao-Han Lin*, Erh-Min Lai. A High-throughput Interbacterial Competition Platform. Bio-protocol. 10(17): e3736, 2020-10.　[WOS]
Lin HH, Yu M, Sriramoju MK, Hsu SD, Liu CT*, Lai EM*. A High-Throughput Interbacterial Competition Screen Identifies ClpAP in Enhancing Recipient Susceptibility to Type VI Secretion System-Mediated Attack by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Frontiers in microbiology. 10, 3077, 2020-02. [JCR]　[WOS]
Santos MNM, Cho ST, Wu CF, Chang CJ, Kuo CH, Lai EM*. Redundancy and Specificity of Type VI Secretion vgrG Loci in Antibacterial Activity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 1D1609 Strain. Frontiers in microbiology. 10, 3004, 2020-01. [JCR]　[WOS]
McCarthy RR, Yu M, Eilers K, Wang YC, (Lai EM), Filloux A*. Cyclic di-GMP inactivates T6SS and T4SS activity in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Molecular microbiology. 112(2), 632-648, 2019-08. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wu CF, Santos MNM, Cho ST, Chang HH, Tsai YM, Smith DA, Kuo CH*, Chang JH*, (Lai EM*). Plant-Pathogenic Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strains Have Diverse Type VI Effector-Immunity Pairs and Vary in In-Planta Competitiveness. Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI. 32(8), 961-971, 2019-08. [JCR]　[WOS]
Haryono M, Cho ST, Fang MJ, Chen AP, Chou SJ, Lai EM, Kuo CH*. Differentiations in Gene Content and Expression Response to Virulence Induction Between Two Agrobacterium Strains. Frontiers in microbiology. 10, 1554, 2019-07. [JCR]　[WOS]
Moller P, Busch P, Sauerbrei B, Kraus A, Forstner KU, Wen TN, Overloper A, Lai EM, Narberhaus F*. The RNase YbeY Is Vital for Ribosome Maturation, Stress Resistance, and Virulence of the Natural Genetic Engineer Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of bacteriology. 201(11),e00730, 2019-06. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wu Chih‐Feng, Lien Yun‐Wei, Bondage Devanand, Lin Jer‐Sheng, Pilhofer Martin, Shih Yu‐Ling, Chang Jeff H, Lai Erh‐Min*. Effector loading onto the VgrG carrier activates type VI secretion system assembly. EMBO reports. 21(1), 2019. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wang YC, Yu M, Shih PY, Wu HY, Lai EM*. Stable pH Suppresses Defense Signaling and is the Key to Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Expression in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Scientific reports. 8(1), 17071, 2018-11. [JCR]　[WOS]
Cho Shu-Ting, Haryono Mindia, Chang Hsing-Hua, Santos Mary Nia M., Lai Erh-Min, Kuo Chih-Horng. Complete Genome Sequence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 1D1609. Genome Announcements. 6(16), e00253-18, 2018-04. [JCR]　[WOS]
Shih Po-Yuan, Chou Shu-Jen, Müller Caroline, Halkier Barbara Ann, Deeken Rosalia, Lai Erh-Min*. Differential roles of glucosinolates and camalexin at different stages of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Molecular Plant Pathology. 19(8), 1956-1970, 2018. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin Hsiao-Han, Huang Hsin-Mei, Yu Manda, Lai Erh-Min, Chien Hsiao-Lin, Liu Chi-Te*. Functional exploration of the bacterial type VI secretion system in mutualism: Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571–Sesbania rostrata as a research model. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 31(8), 856-867, 2018. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin Jer-Sheng, Pissaridou Panayiota, Wu Hsin-Hui, Tsai Ming-Daw, Filloux Alain, Lai Erh-Min*. TagF-mediated repression of bacterial type VI secretion systems involves a direct interaction with the cytoplasmic protein Fha. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(23), 8829-8842, 2018. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lien YW, Lai EM*. Type VI Secretion Effectors: Methodologies and Biology. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology. 7, 254, 2017. [JCR]　[WOS]
Bondage D, Lin JS, Ma LS, Kuo CH, and Lai EM*. VgrG C-terminus confers the type VI effector transport specificity and is required for binding with PAAR and adaptor-effector complex. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 113(27), E3931-E3940, 2016-07. [JCR]　[WOS]
Huang YY, Cho ST, Lo WS, (Lai EM), and Kuo CH* . Complete genome sequence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ach5. Genome Announcment. 3(3), e00570-15, 2015-06. [JCR]
Hwang HH*, Gelvin SB, Lai EM. Editorial: "Agrobacterium biology and its application to transgenic plant production". Frontiers in Plant Science. 6, 265, 2015-04. [JCR]　[WOS]
Hwang HH, Liu YT, Huang SC, Tung CY, Huang FC, Tsai YL, Cheng TF, Lai EM. Overexpression of the HspL promotes Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence in Arabidopsis under heat shock condition. Phytopathology. 105(2), 160-168, 2015-02. [JCR]　[WOS]
Ma LS, Hachani A, Lin JS, Filloux A*, Lai EM*. Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Superfamily of Type VI Secretion DNase Effectors as Weapons for Interbacterial Competition In Planta. Cell Host & Microbe. 16(1), 94-104, 2014-07. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wu HY, Liu KH, Wang YC, Wu JF, Chiu WL, Chen CY, Wu SH, Sheen J, Lai EM. AGROBEST: an efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression method for versatile gene function analyses in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Methods. 10, 19, 2014-06. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wu HY, Chen CY, Lai EM. Expression and Functional Characterization of the Agrobacterium VirB2 Amino Acid Substitution Variants in T-pilus Biogenesis, Virulence, and Transient Transformation Efficiency. PLoS One. 9(6), e101142, 2014-06. [JCR]　[WOS]
Jer-Sheng Lin, Hsin-Hui Wu, Pang-Hung Hsu, Lay-Sun Ma, Yin-Yuin Pang, Ming-Daw Tsai, and Erh-Min Lai. Fha interaction with phosphothreonine of TssL activates type VI secretion in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PLoS Pathogens. 10(3), e1003991, 2014-03. [JCR]　[WOS]
Moller P, Overloper A, Forstner KU, Wen TN, Sharma CM, Lai EM, Narberhaus F. Profound impact of Hfq on nutrient acquisition, metabolism and motility in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PloS one. 9(10), e110427, 2014. [JCR]　[WOS]
Hwang, H. H.,* Yang, F. J., Cheng, T. F., Chen, Y. C., Lee, Y. L., Tsai, Y. L., and Lai, E. M. . The Tzs protein and exogenous cytokinin affect virulence gene expressions and bacterial growth of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. . Phytopathology. 103(9), 888-899, 2013-09. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin, J. S., Ma, L. S., and Lai, E. M. Systematic dissection of the Agrobacterium type VI secretion system reveals machinery and secreted components for subcomplex formation. PLoS One. 8(7), e67647, 2013-07. [JCR]　[WOS]
Yun-Long Tsai, Yin-Ru Chiang, Chih-Feng Wu, Franz Narberhaus, Erh-Min Lai*. One out of Four: HspL but No Other Small Heat Shock Protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Acts as Efficient Virulence-Promoting VirB8 Chaperone. PLoS One. 7(11), e49685, 2012-11. [JCR]　[WOS]
Chih-Feng Wu, Jer-Sheng Lin, Gwo-Chyuan Shaw,* and Erh-Min Lai*. Acid-Induced Type VI Secretion System Is Regulated by ExoR-ChvG/ChvI Signaling Cascade in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PLoS Pathogens. 8(9), e1002938, 2012-09. [JCR]　[WOS]
Wilms, I., Möller, P., Stock, A. M., Gurski, R., Lai, E. M., Narberhaus, F.*. Hfq influences multiple transport systems and virulence in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriol.. 194(9), 5209-5217, 2012-07. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lay-Sun Ma, Franz Narberhaus, and Erh-Min Lai*. The IcmF-family protein TssM exhibits ATPase activity and energizes type VI secretion. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 287(19), 15610-15621, 2012-05. [JCR]　[WOS]
Hau-Hsuan Hwang,* Ming-Hsuan Wang, Ying-Ling Lee, Yun-Long Tsai, Yi-Ho Li, Fong-Jhih Yang, Yu-Chen Liao, Shao-Kai Lin, and Erh-Min Lai*. Agrobacterium-produced and exogenous cytokinins modulate Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. Molecular plant pathology. 11(5), 677-690, 2010-10. [JCR]　[WOS]
Sonja Klusener, Stephanie Hacker, Yun-Long Tsai, Julia E. Bandow, Ronald Gust, Erh-Min Lai, Franz Narberhaus*. Proteomic and transcriptomic characterization of a virulence-deficient phosphatidylcholine-negative Agrobacterium tumefaciens mutant. Molecular genetics and genomics. 283(6), 575-589, 2010-06. [JCR]　[WOS]
Yun-Long Tsai, Yin-Ru Chiang, Franz Narberhaus, Christian Baron, and Erh-Min Lai*. The small heat-shock protein HspL is a VirB8 chaperone promoting type IV secretion-mediated DNA transfer. Journal of biological chemistry. 285, 19757-19766, 2010-06. [JCR]　[WOS]
Tsai, Y. L., Wang, M. H., Gao, C., Klusener, S., Baron, C., Narberhaus, F., and Lai, E. M.* . Small heat-shock protein HspL is induced by VirB proteins and promotes efficient VirB/D4-mediated DNA transfer in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM. 155 (10), 3270-3280, 2009-10. [JCR]　[WOS]
Ma, L., Lin, J. S., and (Lai, E. M.)*. An IcmF-family protein ImpLM is an integral inner membrane protein interacting with ImpKL and its Walker A motif is required for type VI secretion system-mediated Hcp secretion in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J Bacteriol. 191, 4316-4329, 2009. [JCR]　[WOS]
Mallozzi M, Bozue J, Giorno R, Moody KS, Slack A, Cote C, Qiu D, Wang R, McKenney P, Lai EM, Maddock JR, Friedlander A, Welkos S, Eichenberger P, Driks A. Characterization of a Bacillus anthracis spore coat-surface protein that influences coat-surface morphology. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 289(1), 110-117, 2008-12. [JCR]　[WOS]
A. C. Liu, H. W. Shih, T. Hsu and E. M. Lai. A citrate-inducible gene, encoding a putative tricarboxylate transporter, is downregulated by the organic solvent DMSO in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 105, 1372-1383, 2008. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin, C. S., Liu, N. T., Liao, D. C., Yu, J. S., Tsao, C. H., Lin, C. H., Sun, C. W., Jane, W. N., Tsay, H. S., Chen, J. J. W., Lai, E. M., Lin, N. S., Chang, W. C., Lin, C. C. Differential protein expression of two photosystem II subunits, PsbO and PsbP in an albino mutant of Bambusa edulis Murno with chloroplast DNA aberration. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 133, 270-277, 2008. [JCR]　[WOS]
Y. Z. Lin, H. Y. Chen, R. Kao, S. P. Chang, S. J. Chang and E. M. Lai. Proteomic analysis of rice defense response induced by probenazole. Phytochemistry. 69, 715-728, 2008. [JCR]　[WOS]
H. Y. Wu, P. C. Chung, H. W. Shih, S. R. Wen and E. M. Lai. Secretome analysis uncovers an Hcp-family protein secreted via a type VI secretion system in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Bacteriology. 190, 2841-2850, 2008. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, H. W. Shih, S. R. Wen, M. W. Cheng, H. H. Hwang and S. H. Chiu. Proteomic analysis of Agrobacterium tumefaciens response to the vir gene inducer acetosyringone. Proteomics. 6, 4130-4136, 2006. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, U. Nair, N. D. Phadke and J. R. Maddock. Proteomic Screening and Identification of Differentially Distributed Membrane Proteins in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol. 52, 1029-1044, 2004. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, N. D. Phadke, M. T. Kachman, R. Giorno, S. Vazquez, J. A. Vazquez, J. R. Maddock and A. Driks. Proteomic Analysis of the Spore Coats of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis. J Bacteriol. 185, 1443-1454, 2003. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, R. Eisenbrandt, M. Kalkum, E. Lanka and C. I. Kado. Biogenesis of T pili in Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires precise VirB2 propilin cleavage and cyclization. J Bacteriol. 184, 327-330, 2002. [JCR]　[WOS]
L. Leloup, E. M. Lai and C. I. Kado. Identification of a chromosomal Tra-like region in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Mol Gen Genet. 267, 115-123, 2002. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, C. I. Kado. The Agrobacterium tumefaciens T pilus composed of cyclic T pilin is highly resilient to extreme environments. FEMS Microbiol Letters. 210, 111-114, 2002. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, O. Chesnokova, L. Banta and C. I. Kado. Genetic and environmental factors affecting T-pilin export and T-pilus biogenesis in relation to flagellation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J Bacteriol. 182, 3705-3716, 2000. [JCR]　[WOS]
C. I. Kado, E. M. Lai and B. Kelly. On the mechanism of horizontal gene transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. In: Plant Genetic Engineering. 5, 68-75, 2000.　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, C. I. Kado. The T-pilus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Trends in Microbiol. 8, 361-369, 2000. [JCR]　[WOS]
R. Eisenbrandt, M. Kalkum, E. M. Lai, R. Lurz, C. I. Kado and E. Lanka. Conjugative pili of IncP plasmids and the Ti plasmid T pilus are composed of cyclic subunits. J Biol Chem. 274, 22548-22555, 1999. [JCR]　[WOS]
E. M. Lai, C. I. Kado. Processed VirB2 is the major subunit of the promiscuous pilus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J Bacteriol. 180, 2711-2717, 1998. [JCR]　[WOS]
Jones, A. L., Lai, E. M., Shirasu, K. and Kado, C. I. VirB2 is a processed pilin like protein encoded by the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid. J. Bacteriol.. 178, 5706-5711, 1996. [JCR]　[WOS]
To KY, Lai EM, Lee LY, Lin TP, Hung CH, Chen CL, Chang YS, Liu ST*. Analysis of the gene cluster encoding carotenoid biosynthesis in Erwinia herbicola Eho13. Microbiology-sgm. 140(2), 331-339, 1994-02. [JCR]　[WOS]
Lin, T. P., Lai, E. M., To, K. Y., Chang, Y. S., and Liu, S. T. Transcriptional activation of flanking sequences by Tn1000 insertion. Mol. Gen. Genet.. 245 (4), 417-423, 1994. [JCR]　[WOS]

Book 1

C. I. Kado, E. M. Lai and B. Kelly In: Plant Genet Eng. 68-75, 2000.