Jeff Ellis

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Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi The role of secreted proteins in diseases of plants caused by rust, powdery mildew and smut fungi
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Opin Microbiol 10:326-31. 2007
  2. ncbi Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactions
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Annu Rev Phytopathol 45:289-306. 2007
  3. ncbi Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Opin Plant Biol 12:399-405. 2009
  4. ncbi Insights into nonhost disease resistance: can they assist disease control in agriculture?
    Jeff Ellis
    Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Plant Cell 18:523-8. 2006
  5. ncbi The problem of how fungal and oomycete avirulence proteins enter plant cells
    Jeff Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Trends Plant Sci 11:61-3. 2006
  6. ncbi Plant pathology: monitoring a pathogen-targeted host protein
    Jeff Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO BOX 1600 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Biol 13:R400-2. 2003
  7. ncbi Autoactive alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non-race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive response
    Paul Howles
    CSIRO, Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:570-82. 2005
  8. ncbi The Melampsora lini AvrL567 avirulence genes are expressed in haustoria and their products are recognized inside plant cells
    Peter N Dodds
    Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Plant Cell 16:755-68. 2004
  9. ncbi Avirulence proteins from haustoria-forming pathogens
    Ann Maree Catanzariti
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 269:181-8. 2007
  10. ncbi Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defense responses
    Donna Frost
    CSIRO Plant Industry, Cnr Clunies Ross Street and Barry Drive, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 17:224-32. 2004

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Publications21

  1. ncbi The role of secreted proteins in diseases of plants caused by rust, powdery mildew and smut fungi
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Opin Microbiol 10:326-31. 2007
    ..High amplitude defence gene expression has a dual dependence on transcriptional de-repression induced by specific R-Avr protein recognition and additionally, activation signals initiated by host perception of general pathogen molecules...
  2. ncbi Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactions
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Annu Rev Phytopathol 45:289-306. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens
    Jeffrey G Ellis
    CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Opin Plant Biol 12:399-405. 2009
    ..Advances are being made in the identification and in understanding the evolution of effectors and of host uptake signals used by eukaryotic effectors to enter host cells...
  4. ncbi Insights into nonhost disease resistance: can they assist disease control in agriculture?
    Jeff Ellis
    Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Plant Cell 18:523-8. 2006
  5. ncbi The problem of how fungal and oomycete avirulence proteins enter plant cells
    Jeff Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Trends Plant Sci 11:61-3. 2006
    ..This signal is surprisingly similar to the host targeting signal used by the malaria pathogen Plasmodium fulciparum to target virulence proteins to the mammalian host cell...
  6. ncbi Plant pathology: monitoring a pathogen-targeted host protein
    Jeff Ellis
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO BOX 1600 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Curr Biol 13:R400-2. 2003
    ..A plant protein RIN4 is targeted and modified by bacterial pathogens as part of the disease process. At least two host resistance proteins monitor this pathogen interference and trigger the plant's defence responses...
  7. ncbi Autoactive alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non-race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive response
    Paul Howles
    CSIRO, Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:570-82. 2005
    ....
  8. ncbi The Melampsora lini AvrL567 avirulence genes are expressed in haustoria and their products are recognized inside plant cells
    Peter N Dodds
    Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Plant Cell 16:755-68. 2004
    ..Differences in the three AvrL567 protein sequences result from diversifying selection, which is consistent with a coevolutionary arms race...
  9. ncbi Avirulence proteins from haustoria-forming pathogens
    Ann Maree Catanzariti
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 269:181-8. 2007
    ..Elucidating how these pathogen proteins gain entry into plant cells and their biological function will be key questions for future research...
  10. ncbi Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defense responses
    Donna Frost
    CSIRO Plant Industry, Cnr Clunies Ross Street and Barry Drive, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 17:224-32. 2004
    ..Together, these results suggest that defense signaling properties of resistance genes can be expressed in an allele-specific and pathogen-independent manner when transferred between plant genera...
  11. ncbi Relationships between rust resistance genes at the M locus in flax
    Gregory J Lawrence
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Mol Plant Pathol 11:19-32. 2010
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  12. ncbi Transformation of the flax rust fungus, Melampsora lini: selection via silencing of an avirulence gene
    Gregory J Lawrence
    CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Plant J 61:364-9. 2010
    ..This directly confirms that the cloned AvrL567 gene is responsible for flax rust virulence phenotypes, and demonstrates the utility of this system to probe rust gene function...
  13. ncbi Effectors of biotrophic fungi and oomycetes: pathogenicity factors and triggers of host resistance
    Peter N Dodds
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    New Phytol 183:993-1000. 2009
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  14. ncbi A plant gene up-regulated at rust infection sites
    Michael A Ayliffe
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
    Plant Physiol 129:169-80. 2002
    ..The promoters of these genes have potential roles for the engineering of synthetic rust resistance genes by targeting transgene expression to the sites of rust infection...
  15. ncbi Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and coevolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genes
    Peter N Dodds
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:8888-93. 2006
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  16. ncbi In the trenches of plant pathogen recognition: Role of NB-LRR proteins
    Maryam Rafiqi
    Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Semin Cell Dev Biol 20:1017-24. 2009
    ..This review addresses recent advances in the molecular role of NB-LRR proteins in pathogen recognition and activation of plant defence responses...
  17. ncbi Haustorially expressed secreted proteins from flax rust are highly enriched for avirulence elicitors
    Ann-Maree Catanzariti
    Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra ACT, Australia
    Plant Cell 18:243-56. 2006
    ..Addition of an endoplasmic reticulum retention signal inhibited AvrM-induced necrosis, suggesting that both AvrM and AvrP4 can reenter the plant cell after secretion in the absence of the pathogen...
  18. ncbi Internalization of flax rust avirulence proteins into flax and tobacco cells can occur in the absence of the pathogen
    Maryam Rafiqi
    Division of Plant Science, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology, and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
    Plant Cell 22:2017-32. 2010
    ..Uptake of these proteins is dependent on signals in their N-terminal regions, but the primary sequence features of these uptake regions are not conserved between different rust effectors...
  19. ncbi Purification of the M flax-rust resistance protein expressed in Pichia pastoris
    Simon A Schmidt
    The School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, G P O Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
    Plant J 50:1107-17. 2007
    ..The successful expression and purification of soluble M protein opens the way for biochemical and structural analysis of this class of important plant proteins...
  20. ncbi Crystal structures of flax rust avirulence proteins AvrL567-A and -D reveal details of the structural basis for flax disease resistance specificity
    Ching I A Wang
    School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Plant Cell 19:2898-912. 2007
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  21. ncbi The use of Co2+ for crystallization and structure determination, using a conventional monochromatic X-ray source, of flax rust avirulence protein
    Gregor Guncar
    School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
    Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 63:209-13. 2007
    ..This approach using cobalt ions may be applicable to all cobalt-binding proteins and may be advantageous when synchrotron radiation is not readily available...