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Mark Banfield

Group Leader, John Innes Centre
Verified email at jic.ac.uk
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Oomycetes, effectors, and all that jazz

TO Bozkurt, S Schornack, MJ Banfield… - Current opinion in plant …, 2012 - Elsevier
Plant pathogenic oomycetes secrete a diverse repertoire of effector proteins that modulate
host innate immunity and enable parasitic infection. Understanding how effectors evolve, …

Effectors of filamentous plant pathogens: commonalities amid diversity

…, HG Pennington, S Kamoun, MJ Banfield - Microbiology and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungi and oomycetes are filamentous microorganisms that include a diversity of highly
developed pathogens of plants. These are sophisticated modulators of plant processes that …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence divergent RXLR effectors share a structural fold conserved across plant pathogenic oomycete species

…, K Shirasu, BJ Staskawicz, MJ Banfield - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The availability of genome sequences for some of the most devastating eukaryotic plant
pathogens has led a revolution in our understanding of how these parasites cause disease, and …

A divergent external loop confers antagonistic activity on floral regulators FT and TFL1

JH Ahn, D Miller, VJ Winter, MJ Banfield, JH Lee… - The EMBO …, 2006 - embopress.org
The Arabidopsis genes FT and TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1) encode related proteins with
similarity to human Raf kinase inhibitor protein. FT, and likely also TFL1, is recruited to the …

Protein-folding location can regulate manganese-binding versus copper-or zinc-binding

…, C Bessant, K Sato, TR Cheek, J Gray, MJ Banfield… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Metals are needed by at least one-quarter of all proteins 1 , 2 . Although metallochaperones
3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 insert the correct metal into some proteins, they have not been found for the …

Structural basis of pathogen recognition by an integrated HMA domain in a plant NLR immune receptor

…, H Kanzaki, S Kamoun, R Terauchi, MJ Banfield - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.08709.001 Plants have evolved intracellular immune receptors to detect
pathogen proteins known as effectors. How these immune receptors detect effectors remains …

DETERMINATE and LATE FLOWERING Are Two TERMINAL FLOWER1/CENTRORADIALIS Homologs That Control Two Distinct Phases of Flowering Initiation and …

…, J Courtiade, S Cadioux, N Ellis, MJ Banfield… - The Plant …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Genes in the TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1)/CENTRORADIALIS family are important key
regulatory genes involved in the control of flowering time and floral architecture in several …

[PDF][PDF] Function from structure? The crystal structure of human phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein suggests a role in membrane signal transduction

MJ Banfield, JJ Barker, ACF Perry, RL Brady - Structure, 1998 - cell.com
Background: Proteins belonging to the phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP)
family are highly conserved throughout nature and have no significant sequence homology …

Effector specialization in a lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen

…, TO Bozkurt, R Oliva, Z Liu, M Tian, J Win, MJ Banfield… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation following a host jump. Here,
we describe the biochemical basis of adaptation and specialization of a plant pathogen …

An effector of the Irish potato famine pathogen antagonizes a host autophagy cargo receptor

…, J Sklenar, J Win, F Menke, K Findlay, MJ Banfield… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.10856.001 Plants use autophagy to safeguard against infectious diseases.
However, how plant pathogens interfere with autophagy-related processes is unknown. Here, …