Jens Boch

Summary

Affiliation: Martin Luther University
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Xanthomonas AvrBs3 family-type III effectors: discovery and function
    Jens Boch
    Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, D 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Annu Rev Phytopathol 48:419-36. 2010
  2. ncbi Breaking the code of DNA binding specificity of TAL-type III effectors
    Jens Boch
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 10, D 06099 Halle Saale Germany
    Science 326:1509-12. 2009
  3. ncbi Characterization of AvrBs3-like effectors from a Brassicaceae pathogen reveals virulence and avirulence activities and a protein with a novel repeat architecture
    Sabine Kay
    Institute of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Saale, Germany
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:838-48. 2005
  4. ncbi Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
    Patrick Römer
    Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    New Phytol 187:1048-57. 2010
  5. ncbi TAL effector-DNA specificity
    Heidi Scholze
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
    Virulence 1:428-32. 2010
  6. ncbi Transcriptional activators of human genes with programmable DNA-specificity
    René Geissler
    Section Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
    PLoS ONE 6:e19509. 2011
  7. ncbi Type III secretion chaperones ShcS1 and ShcO1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 bind more than one effector
    Ute Kabisch
    Institute of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Microbiology 151:269-80. 2005
  8. ncbi TAL effectors are remote controls for gene activation
    Heidi Scholze
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Curr Opin Microbiol 14:47-53. 2011
  9. ncbi Insights into genome plasticity and pathogenicity of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria revealed by the complete genome sequence
    Frank Thieme
    , , Weinbergweg 10, D-06120 Halle (Saale, Germany
    J Bacteriol 187:7254-66. 2005
  10. ncbi Computational predictions provide insights into the biology of TAL effector target sites
    Jan Grau
    Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
    PLoS Comput Biol 9:e1002962. 2013

Collaborators

  • Ernst Weber
  • U Bonas
  • Thomas Lahaye
  • Lars Gaigalat
  • Ralf Koebnik
  • Thomas Bekel
  • Olaf Kaiser
  • Heidi Scholze
  • Jan Grau
  • Sabine Kay
  • René Geissler
  • Patrick Römer
  • Ute Kabisch
  • Frank Thieme
  • Stefan Posch
  • Annett Wolf
  • Maik Reschke
  • Jana Streubel
  • Simone Hahn
  • Sven Erik Behrens
  • Sabine Recht
  • Shiping Wang
  • Tina Strauss
  • Sebastian Schornack
  • Janett Elsaesser
  • Carolin Berger
  • Angelika Landgraf
  • Camila Caldana
  • Christa Lanz
  • Oliver Rupp
  • Thomas Patschkowski
  • Daniela Bartels
  • Susanne Schneiker
  • Jana Krause
  • Oliver Kirchner
  • Gerhard Mittenhuber
  • Alexander Goesmann
  • Dietrich H Nies
  • Stephan C Schuster
  • Burkhard Linke
  • Folker Meyer
  • Alice C McHardy

Detail Information

Publications10

  1. ncbi Xanthomonas AvrBs3 family-type III effectors: discovery and function
    Jens Boch
    Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, D 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Annu Rev Phytopathol 48:419-36. 2010
    ..Specificity of TAL effectors is determined by a novel modular DNA-binding domain. Here, we describe the discovery of TAL effectors and their structure, activity, and host targets...
  2. ncbi Breaking the code of DNA binding specificity of TAL-type III effectors
    Jens Boch
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 10, D 06099 Halle Saale Germany
    Science 326:1509-12. 2009
    ..Our study describes the functionality of a distinct type of DNA binding domain and allows the design of DNA binding domains for biotechnology...
  3. ncbi Characterization of AvrBs3-like effectors from a Brassicaceae pathogen reveals virulence and avirulence activities and a protein with a novel repeat architecture
    Sabine Kay
    Institute of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Saale, Germany
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:838-48. 2005
    ..In addition, hax3 and hax4, but not hax2, have a Bs4-dependent avirulence activity in tomato and in transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana expressing the Bs4 resistance gene...
  4. ncbi Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
    Patrick Römer
    Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    New Phytol 187:1048-57. 2010
    ..Our findings show that variations in the UPT boxes of different rice accessions correlate with susceptibility or resistance of these accessions to the bacterial blight pathogen...
  5. ncbi TAL effector-DNA specificity
    Heidi Scholze
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
    Virulence 1:428-32. 2010
    ..The unique TAL-DNA binding domain allows design of proteins with potentially any given DNA recognition specificity enabling many uses for biotechnology...
  6. ncbi Transcriptional activators of human genes with programmable DNA-specificity
    René Geissler
    Section Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
    PLoS ONE 6:e19509. 2011
    ..The creation of TAL proteins with potentially any desired DNA-recognition specificity allows their versatile use in biotechnology...
  7. ncbi Type III secretion chaperones ShcS1 and ShcO1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 bind more than one effector
    Ute Kabisch
    Institute of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Microbiology 151:269-80. 2005
    ..In addition, ShcS1 is also able to form heterodimers with ShcO1. These data demonstrate that ShcS1 and ShcO1 are exceptional class IA TTS chaperones because they can bind more than one target effector...
  8. ncbi TAL effectors are remote controls for gene activation
    Heidi Scholze
    Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, 06099 Halle Saale, Germany
    Curr Opin Microbiol 14:47-53. 2011
    ..Rearrangement of repeat modules allows design of proteins with desired DNA-binding specificities. Here, we summarize how TAL specificity is encoded, first structural data and first data on site-specific TAL nucleases...
  9. ncbi Insights into genome plasticity and pathogenicity of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria revealed by the complete genome sequence
    Frank Thieme
    , , Weinbergweg 10, D-06120 Halle (Saale, Germany
    J Bacteriol 187:7254-66. 2005
    ..Comparisons with other completely sequenced plant pathogens predicted six novel type III effector proteins and several other virulence factors, including adhesins, cell wall-degrading enzymes, and extracellular polysaccharides...
  10. ncbi Computational predictions provide insights into the biology of TAL effector target sites
    Jan Grau
    Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
    PLoS Comput Biol 9:e1002962. 2013
    ..TALgetter is implemented as part of the open-source Java library Jstacs, and is freely available as a web-application and a command line program...