Publications

Here you can find a list of publications (peer-reviewed and preprints) in reverse chronological order.

2025

Guanghao Guo, Kaihong Bai, Yikun Hou, Zhen Gong, Huaizhi Zhang, Qiuhong Wu, Ping Lu, Miaomiao Li, Lingli Dong, Jingzhong Xie, Yongxing Chen, Panpan Zhang, Keyu Zhu, Beibei Li, Wenling Li, Lei Dong, Yijun Yang, Dan Qiu, Gaojie Wang, Hee-Kyung Ahn, He Zhao, Chengguo Yuan, Wenqi Shi, Minfeng Xue, Lijun Yang, Dazao Yu, Yusheng Zhao, Yuhang Chen, Hongjie Li, Tiezhu Hu, Guan-Zhu Han, Jonathan D G Jones, and Zhiyong Liu.

The wheat NLR pair RXL/Pm5e confers resistance to powdery mildew. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2025) 1-17 

link: https://doi: 10.1111/pbi.14584

2024

Saet-Byul Kim, Ki-Tae Kim, Solhee In, Namrata Jaiswal, Gir-Won Lee, Seungmee Jung, Abigail Rogers, Libia F. Gómez-Trejo, Sujan Gautam, Matthew Helm, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hye-Young Lee, Quentin D. Read, Jongchan Woo, Katerina L. Holan, Steven A. Whitham, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Doil Choi, Ralph Dean, Eunsook Park, Peter Balint-Kurti.

Use of the Puccinia sorghi haustorial transcriptome to identify and characterize AvrRp1-D recognized by the maize Rp1-D resistance protein. PLoS Pathogens (2024) 

link: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012662

Dae Sung Kim, Yufei Li, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Alison Woods-Tör, Volkan Cevik, Oliver J. Furzer, Wenbo Ma, Mahmut Tör, Jonathan DG Jones.

ATR2Cala2 from Arabidopsis-infecting downy mildew requires 4 TIR-NLR immune receptors for full recognition. New Phytologist (2024) 243:330–344

link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19790

2023

Hee-Kyung Ahn**, Jonathan DG Jones. (Corresponding author)

PREPRINT

Blue native-PAGE of protein complexes in plant cells. protocols.io (2023) 

link: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.3byl4jyd8lo5/v1

Joanna M Feehan, Junli Wang, Xinhua Sun, Jihyeon Choi, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jane E Parker, Jonathan DG Jones. 

Oligomerisation of a plant helper NLR requires cell-surface and intracellular immune receptor activation. PNAS (2023) 120(11):e2210406120

link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210406120

Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Xiao Lin*, Andrea Carolina Olave-Achury, Lida Derevnina, Mauricio P Contreras, Jiorgos Kourelis, Chih-Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun, Jonathan DG Jones.

Effector-dependent activation and oligomerization of NRC helper NLRs by Rpi-amr3 and Rpi-amr1. EMBO J (2023) 42:e111484

link: https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2022111484

Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Angel Vergara Cruces, Jiorgos Kourelis, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Kim-Teng Lee, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga O Bozkurt, Lida Derevnina, Sophien Kamoun.

Sensor NLR immune proteins activate oligomerization of their NRC helper. EMBO J (2023) 42:e111519

link: https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2022111519

2022

Xiao Lin, Andrea Olave-Achury, Robert Heal, Marina Pais, Kamil Witek, Hee-Kyung Ahn, He Zhao, Shivani Bhanvadia, Hari S Karki, Tianqiao Song, Chih-Hang Wu, Hiroaki Adachi, Sophien Kamoun, Vivianne GAA Vleeshouwers, Jonathan DG Jones. 

A potato late blight resistance gene protects against multiple Phytophthora species by recognizing a broadly conserved RXLR-WY effector. Molecular Plant (2022) 15(9):1457-1469

link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.07.012

Joanna M Feehan, Junli Wang, Xinhua Sun, Jihyeon Choi, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jane E Parker, Jonathan DG Jones. 

PREPRINT

Oligomerisation of a plant helper NLR requires cell-surface and intracellular immune receptor activation.

link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.16.496440

Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Xiao Lin*, Andrea Carolina Olave-Achury, Lida Derevnina, Mauricio P Contreras, Jiorgos Kourelis, Sophien Kamoun, Jonathan DG Jones.

PREPRINT

Effector-dependent activation and oligomerization of NRC helper NLRs by Rpi-amr3 and Rpi-amr1.

link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.25.489359

Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Angel Vergara Cruces, Jiorgos Kourelis, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga O Bozkurt, Lida Derevnina, Sophien Kamoun.

PREPRINT

Sensor NLR immune proteins activate oligomerization of their NRC helper.

link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.25.489342

2021

Ho-Seok Lee, Ilyeong Choi, Young Jeon, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Huikyong Cho, Ji Woo Kim, Jae-Hee Kim, Jung-Min Lee, Sung Hee Lee, Julian Bünting, Dong Hye Seo, Tak Lee, Du-Hwa Lee, Insuk Lee, Man-Ho Oh, Tae-Wuk Kim, Youssef Belkhadir, Hyun-Sook Pai. 

Chaperone-like protein DAY plays critical roles in photomorphogenesis. Nature Communications (2021) 12:4194

link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24446-5

Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Pingtao Ding, Jonathan DG Jones.

Mutual Potentiation of Plant Immunity by Cell-surface and Intracellular Receptors. Nature (2021) 592:110-115

link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03315-7

2020

Hailong Guo*, Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Jan Sklenar, Jianhua Huang, Yan Ma, Pingtao Ding, Frank LH Menke, Jonathan DG Jones.

Phosphorylation-regulated activation of the Arabidopsis RRS1-R/RPS4 immune receptor complex reveals two distinct effector recognition mechanisms. Cell Host & Microbes (2020) 27(5): 769 

link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2020.03.008

Bruno Pok Man Ngou*, Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Pingtao Ding*, Amey Redkar, Hannah Brown, Yan Ma, Mark Youles, Laurence Tomlinson, Jonathan DG Jones. 

Estradiol-inducible AvrRps4 expression reveals distinct properties of TIR-NLR-mediated effector-triggered immunity. Journal of Experimental Botany (2020) 71:2186 

link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz571

Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Pingtao Ding, Jonathan DG Jones.

PREPRINT

Mutual Potentiation of Plant Immunity by Cell-surface and Intracellular Receptors. 

link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.10.034173

2019

Bruno Pok Man Ngou*, Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Pingtao Ding*, Amey Redkar, Hannah Brown, Yan Ma, Mark Youles, Laurence Tomlinson, Jonathan DG Jones.

PREPRINT 

Estradiol-inducible AvrRps4 expression reveals distinct properties of TIR-NLR-mediated effector-triggered immunity. 

link: https://doi.org/10.1101/701359

Hee-Kyung Ahn, Joong-Tak Yoon, Ilyeong Choi, Sumin Kim, Ho-Seok Lee, Hyun-Sook Pai. 

Functional characterization of chaperonin containing T-complex polypeptide-1 and its conserved and novel substrates in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany (2019) 70(10): 2741

link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz099

2018

Joong-Tak Yoon*, Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Hyun-Sook Pai.

The subfamily II catalytic subunits of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) are involved in cortical microtubule organization. Planta (2018) 248(6):1551

link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-018-3000-0

2017

Young Jeon, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Yong Won Kang, Hyun-Sook Pai

Functional characterization of chloroplast-targeted RbgA GTPase in higher plants. Plant Molecular Biology (2017) 95(4-5):463

link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-017-0664-y

2015

Hee-Kyung Ahn*, Yong Won Kang*, Hye Min Lim*, Inhwan Hwang, Hyun-Sook Pai. 

Physiological functions of the COPI complex in higher plants. Molecules and Cells (2015) 38: 866 

link: https://doi.org/10.14348/molcells.2015.0115

Chang Sook Ahn, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hyun-Sook Pai.

Overexpression of the PP2A regulatory subunit Tap46 leads to enhanced plant growth through stimulation of the TOR signaling pathway. Journal of Experimental Botany (2015) 66(3): 827

link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru438

2014

Seungill Kim, Minkyu Park, Seon-In Yeom et al.

Genome sequence of the hot pepper provides insights into the evolution of pungency in Capsicum species. Nature Genetics (2014) 46: 270

link: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2877

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