Publications

Project-related publications of the research groups involved:

Koch A, Kumar N, Weber L, Keller H, Imani J, Kogel KH. Host-induced gene silencing of cytochrome P450 lanosterol C14α-demethylase-encoding genes confers strong resistance to Fusarium species. 2013. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A;110:19324-9.10.1073/pnas.1306373110.

Weiberg A, Wang M, Lin FM, Zhao H, Zhang Z, Kaloshian I, Huang HD, Jin H. Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways. 2013. Science;342:118-23.10.1126/science.1239705.

Koch A, Biedenkopf D, Furch A, Weber L, Rossbach O, Abdellatef E, Linicus L, Johannsmeier J, Jelonek L, Goesmann A, Cardoza V, McMillan J, Mentzel T, Kogel K-H. An RNAi-Based Control of Fusarium graminearum Infections Through Spraying of Long dsRNAs Involves a Plant Passage and Is Controlled by the Fungal Silencing Machinery. 2016. PLOS Pathogens;12:e1005901.10.1371/journal.ppat.1005901.

Kehr J, Kragler F. Long distance RNA movement. 2018. New Phytol;218:29-40.10.1111/nph.15025.

Bielska E, Birch PRJ, Buck AH, Abreu-Goodger C, Innes RW, Jin H, Pfaffl MW, Robatzek S, Regev-Rudzki N, Tisserant C, Wang S, Weiberg A. Highlights of the mini-symposium on extracellular vesicles in inter-organismal communication, held in Munich, Germany, August 2018. 2019. J Extracell Vesicles;8:1590116.10.1080/20013078.2019.1590116.

Rybak K, Robatzek S. Functions of Extracellular Vesicles in Immunity and Virulence. 2019. Plant Physiol;179:1236-1247.10.1104/pp.18.01557.

Tisserant C, Weiberg A. Extracellular vesicles in plant host-microbe interaction. 2019. Trillium: Extracellular Vesicles;1.10.47184/tev.2019.01.07.

Schneider T, Hung L-H, Aziz M, Wilmen A, Thaum S, Wagner J, Janowski R, Müller S, Schreiner S, Friedhoff P, Hüttelmaier S, Niessing D, Sattler M, Schlundt A, Bindereif A. Combinatorial recognition of clustered RNA elements by the multidomain RNA-binding protein IMP3. 2019. Nat Commun;10:2266.10.1038/s41467-019-09769-8.

Béthune J, Jansen RP, Feldbrügge M, Zarnack K. Membrane-Associated RNA-Binding Proteins Orchestrate Organelle-Coupled Translation. 2019. Trends Cell Biol;29:178-188.10.1016/j.tcb.2018.10.005.

Olgeiser L, Haag C, Boerner S, Ule J, Busch A, Koepke J, König J, Feldbrügge M, Zarnack K. The key protein of endosomal mRNP transport Rrm4 binds translational landmark sites of cargo mRNAs. 2019. EMBO Rep;20.10.15252/embr.201846588.

Kwon S, Tisserant C, Tulinski M, Weiberg A, Feldbrügge M. Inside-out: from endosomes to extracellular vesicles in fungal RNA transport. 2020. Fungal Biology Reviews;34:89-99.10.1016/j.fbr.2020.01.001.

Liu S, Jaouannet M, Dempsey DA, Imani J, Coustau C, Kogel KH. RNA-based technologies for insect control in plant production. 2020. Biotechnol Adv;39:107463.10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.107463.

Werner BT, Koch A, Šečić E, Engelhardt J, Jelonek L, Steinbrenner J, Kogel KH. Fusarium graminearum DICER-like-dependent sRNAs are required for the suppression of host immune genes and full virulence. 2021. PLoS One;16:e0252365.10.1371/journal.pone.0252365.

Thieron H, Singh M, Panstruga R. One microRNA-like small RNA - two silencing pathways? New Phytol. 2021 Oct;232:464-467. doi: 10.1111/nph.17652.

Šečić E, Zanini S, Wibberg D, Jelonek L, Busche T, Kalinowski J, Nasfi S, Thielmann J, Imani J, Steinbrenner J, Kogel K-H. A novel plant-fungal association reveals fundamental sRNA and gene expression reprogramming at the onset of symbiosis. 2021. BMC Biology;19:171.10.1186/s12915-021-01104-2.

Kuzmich S, Blumenkamp P, Meier D, Szadkowski D, Goesmann A et al. (2021) CRP-Like Transcriptional Regulator MrpC Curbs c-di-GMP and 3',3'-cGAMP Nucleotide Levels during Development in Myxococcus xanthus. mBio 13 (1): e0004422.

Kwon S, Rupp O, Brachmann A, Blum CF, Kraege A, Goesmann A, Feldbrügge M. mRNA Inventory of Extracellular Vesicles from Ustilago maydis. 2021. J Fungi (Basel);7.10.3390/jof7070562.

Nasfi S, Kogel K-H. Packaged or unpackaged: appearance and transport of extracellular noncoding RNAs in the plant apoplast. 2022. ExRNA;4.

Ruf A, Oberkofler L, Robatzek S, Weiberg A. Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles. 2022. Curr Opin Plant Biol;69:102272.10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102272.

Ostendorp A, Ostendorp S, Zhou Y, Chaudron Z, Wolffram L, Rombi K, von Pein L, Falke S, Jeffries CM, Svergun DI, Betzel C, Morris RJ, Kragler F, Kehr J. Intrinsically disordered plant protein PARCL colocalizes with RNA in phase-separated condensates whose formation can be regulated by mutating the PLD. 2022. J Biol Chem;298:102631.10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102631.

Kehr J, Morris RJ, Kragler F. Long-Distance Transported RNAs: From Identity to Function. 2022. Annu Rev Plant Biol;73:457-474.10.1146/annurev-arplant-070121-033601.

Cheng A.P., Lederer B., Oberkofler L., Huang L., Johnson N.R., Platten F., Dunker F., Tisserant C., Weiberg A. A fungal RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a novel player in plant infection and cross-kingdom RNA interference. 2023. PLoS Pathogens; DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011885.

Yang L, Zhou Y, Wang S, Xu Y, Ostendorp S, Tomkins M, Kehr J, Morris RJ, Kragler F. Noncell-autonomous HSC70.1 chaperone displays homeostatic feedback regulation by binding its own mRNA. 2023. New Phytol;237:2404-2421.10.1111/nph.18703.

Fernandes R, Ostendorp A, Ostendorp S, Mehrmann J, Falke S, Graewert MA, Weingartner M, Kehr J, Hoth S. Structural and functional analysis of a plant nucleolar RNA chaperone-like protein. 2023. Sci Rep;13:9656.10.1038/s41598-023-36426-4.

Cheng A-P, Kwon S, Adeshara T, Göhre V, Feldbrügge M, Weiberg A. Extracellular RNAs released by plant-associated fungi: from fundamental mechanisms to biotechnological applications. 2023. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.10.1007/s00253-023-12718-7.

Göhre V, Weiberg A. RNA Dialogues in Fungal–Plant Relationships. In: Scott B, Mesarich C, editors. Plant Relationships: Fungal-Plant Interactions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2023. p. 31-51.

Kusch S, Singh M, Thieron H, Spanu PD, Panstruga R. Site-specific analysis reveals candidate cross-kingdom small RNAs, tRNA and rRNA fragments, and signs of fungal RNA phasing in the barley-powdery mildew interaction. 2023. Mol Plant Pathol;24:570-587.10.1111/mpp.13324.

Panstruga R, Spanu P. Transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA fragments - emerging players in plant-microbe interactions. 2023. New Phytol.10.1111/nph.19409.

Kremer K, Meier D, Theis L, Miller S, Rost-Nasshan A et al. (2023) Functional Degeneracy in Paracoccus denitrificans Pd1222 Is Coordinated via RamB, Which Links Expression of the Glyoxylate Cycle to Activity of the Ethylmalonyl-CoA Pathway. Applied and environmental microbiology 89 (7): e0023823.

Meier D, Rauch C, Wagner M, Klemm P, Blumenkamp P et al. (2024) A MoClo-compatible toolbox of ECF sigma factor-based regulatory switches for proteobacterial chassis. Biodesign Research.

Ruf A, Robatzek S. 2024. “Messenger RNA just entered the chat”: The next layer of cross-kingdom RNA transfer. Cell Host & Microbe;32:7-8. 10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.002

Blumenkamp P, Pfister M, Diedrich S, Brinkrolf K, Jaenicke S, Goesmann A. 2024. Curare and GenExVis: a versatile toolkit for analyzing and visualizing RNA-Seq data. BMC Bioinformatics;25:138.10.1186/s12859-024-05761-2.