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Professor Sheng Yang He

Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory and Department of Plant
Biology, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 42224, USA
Tel: +1-517-353-9181; Fax: +1-517-353-9168
E-mail: hes@msu.edu
http://www.prl.msu.edu/Facultypages/He.html
Area of expertise: Plant-microbe interactions; pseudomonas syringae; disease resistance
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010
   
Selected Publications:  
   
  • Beckers GJM, Jaskiewicz M, Liu Y, Underwood W, He SY, Zhang S, Conrath U (2009) Mitogen-activated protein kinases 3 and 6 are required for full priming of stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 21, 944-953.
  • Boller T, He SY (2009) Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens. Science 324, 742-744.
  • B¨ąttner D, He SY (2009) Type III secretion in plant pathogenic bacteria. Plant Physiol. 150, 1656-1664.
  • Ham JH, Majerczak DR, Nomura K, Mecey K, Uribe F, He SY, Mackey D, Coplin DL (2009) Multiple activities of the plant pathogen type III effector proteins WtsE and AvrE require WxxxE motifs. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 22, 703-712.
  • Speth E, Imboden, L, Hauck P, He SY (2009) Subcellular localization and functional analysis of the Arabidopsis GTPase RabE. Plant Physiol. 149, 1824-1837.
  • Speth E, Melotto M, Zhang W, Assmann SM, He SY (2009) Crosstalk in pathogen and hormonal regulation of guard cell signaling. Signal Crosstalk in Plant Stress Responses (K Yoshioka, K Shinozaki eds). Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, IA. 96-112.
  • Katsir L, Schilmiller AL, Staswick PE, He SY, Howe GA (2008) COI1 is a critical component of a receptor for jasmonate and the bacterial virulence factor coronatine. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 7100-7105.
  • Melotto M, Mecey C, Niu Y, Chung HS, Katsir L, Yao J, Zeng W, Thines B, Staswick P, Browse J, Howe GA, He SY (2008) A critical role of two positively charged amino acids in the Jas motif of Arabidopsis JAZ proteins in mediating coronatine- and jasmonoyl isoleucine-dependent interactions with the COI1 F-box protein. Plant J. 55, 979-988.
  • Melotto M, Underwood W, He SY (2008) Role of stomata in plant innate immunity and foliar bacterial diseases. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 46, 101-122.
  • Navarro L, Jay F, Nomura K, He SY, Voinnet O (2008) Suppression of the microRNA pathway by bacterial effector proteins. Science 321, 964-967.
  • Zhang W, He SY, Assmann SM (2008) The plant innate immunity response in stomatal guard cells invokes G-protein-dependent ion channel regulation. Plant J. 56, 984-996.
  • Underwood W, Zhang S, He SY (2007) The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector tyrosine phosphatase HopAO1 suppresses innate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 52, 658-672.
  • Thines B, Katsir L, Melotto M, Niu Y, Mandaokar A, Liu G, Nomura K, He SY, Howe GA, Browse J (2007) JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCFCOI1 complex during jasmonate signalling. Nature 448, 661-665.
  • Bray-Speth E, Lee YN, He SY (2007) Pathogen virulence factors as potential molecular probes of basic plant cellular functions. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 10, 580-586.
  • Underwood W, Melotto M, He SY (2007) Role of plant stomata in bacterial invasion. Cell Microbiol. 9, 1621-1629.
  • Melotto M, Underwood W, Koczan J, Nomura K, He SY (2006) Plant stomata function in innate immunity against bacterial invasion. Cell 126, 969-980.
  • Nomura K, DebRoy S, Lee YH, Pumplin N, Jones, He SY (2006) A bacterial virulence protein suppresses host innate immunity to cause plant disease. Science 313, 220-223.
  • Thilmony R, Underwood W, He SY (2006) Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana interaction with the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and the human pathogen Escherichia coli O157:H7. Plant J. 46, 34-53.
  • Osbourn A, He SY (2006) Biotic interactions: Towards a unifying and balanced view. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 9, 347-350.
  • Lee YH, Kolade OO, Nomura K, Arvidson, DN, He SY (2005) Use of dominant-negative HrpA mutants to dissect Hrp pilus assembly and type III secretion in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 21409-21417.
  • Nomura K, He SY (2005) Powerful screens for bacterial virulence proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 3527-3528.
  • Nomura K, Melotto M, He SY (2005) Suppression of host defense in compatible plant-Pseudomonas syringae interactions. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 8, 361-368.
  • DebRoy S, Thilmony R, Kwack YB, Nomura K, He SY (2004) A family of conserved bacterial effectors inhibits salicylic acid-mediated basal immunity and promotes disease necrosis in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 9927-9932.
  • He SY Nomura K, Whittam T (2004) Type III secretion in mammalian and plant pathogens. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1694, 181-206. (a special review issue on protein secretion pathway in bacteria).
  • Hauck P, Thilmony R, He SY (2003) A Pseudomonas syringae type III effector suppresses cell wall-based extracellular defense in susceptible Arabidopsis plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 8577-8582.
  • Kang L, Li J, Zhao T, Xiao F, Tang X, Thilmony R, He SY, Zhou JM (2003) Interplay of the Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene NHO1 with bacterial virulence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 3519-3524.
  • He SY, Jin Q (2003) The Hrp pilus: learning from flagella. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 6, 15-19.
  • Jin Q, He SY (2001) Role of the Hrp pilus in type III secretion in Pseudomonas syringae. Science 294, 2556-2558.
  • Wei W, Plovanich-Jones A, Deng WL, Jin QL, Collmer A, Huang HC, He SY (2000) The gene coding for the structural protein of the Hrp pilus is required for type III secretion of Hrp and Avr proteins in Pseudomonas syringae pv . tomato. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 2247-2252.
  • Roine E, Wei W, Yuan J, Nurmiaho-Lassila E, Kalkkinen N, Romantschuk M, He SY (1997) Hrp pilus: An hrp -dependent bacterial surface appendage produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 3459-3464.
  • Gopalan S, Bauer D, Alfano J, Loniello A, He SY, Collmer A (1996) Expression of the Pseudomonas syringae avirulence protein AvrB in plant cells alleviates its dependence on the hypersensitive response and pathogenicity (Hrp) secretion system in eliciting genotype-specific hypersensitive cell death. Plant Cell 8, 1095-1105.
  • He SY, Huang HC, Collmer A (1993) Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae harpinPss : a protein that is secreted via the Hrp pathway and elicits the hypersensitive response in plants. Cell 73, 1255-1266.
  • Wei ZM, Laby RJ, Zumoff CH, Bauer DW, He SY, Collmer A, Beer SV (1992) Harpin, elicitor of the hypersensitive response produced by the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. Science 257, 85-88.
  • He SY, Lindeberg M, Chatterjee AK, Collmer A (1991) Cloned out genes from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 enable Escherichia coli strains to selectively secrete a diverse family of heterologous proteins to its milieu. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 1079-1083.