TSL Preprint Club

The Sainsbury Laboratory is an independent research institute renowned for world-leading fundamental discoveries in molecular plant-microbe interactions.

TSL Preprint Club brings together TSL scientists from all levels to discuss the most recent preprints.

Club leads

Daniel Lüdke, Andrés Posbeyikian, and Mauricio Pablo Contreras

PREreviews

1. Amelia Helen Lovelace, AmirAli Toghani, Daniel Lüdke, and Khong-Sam Chia reviewed Hydathode immunity against the vascular pathogenXanthomonas campestrispv. campestris by the Arabidopsis CNL-type receptor SUT1

   • Plant Science

   Review published

   September 6, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

2. Emma Turley, Yordan Dolaptchiev, Hyeon-Min Jeong, and Aoi Kudoh reviewed A new level of RNA-based plant protection - dsRNAs designed from functionally characterized siRNAs highly effective against Cucumber Mosaic Virus

   • Plant Science
   • Endocrinology

   Review published

   September 1, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

3. Diana Gómez De La Cruz, Julie LINTZ, Lena Knorr, and Nutthalak LAKSANAVILAT reviewed Immune signaling induced by plant Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains is thermostable

   • Plant Science

   Review published

   August 30, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

4. Andrés Posbeyikian, Hsuan Pai, Benjamin Seager, and KODAI HONDA reviewed A SUMO interacting motif in the Replication initiator protein of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus is required for viral replication

   • Plant Science

   Review published

   August 28, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

5. Mauricio P. Contreras, BARKHA RAVI, Madia Harvey, and Everton Geraldo Capote Ferreira reviewed The Soybean Cyst Nematode Effector Cysteine Protease 1 (CPR1) Targets a Mitochondrial Soybean Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferase (GmBCAT1) for Degradation

   • Plant Science
   • Molecular Biology

   Review published

   August 23, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

6. Mauricio P. Contreras, AmirAli Toghani, Diana Gómez De La Cruz, Andrés Posbeyikian, and Josh Bennett reviewed The barley MLA13-AVR_A13heterodimer reveals principles for immunoreceptor recognition of RNase-like powdery mildew effectors

   • Plant Science

   Review published

   August 9, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

7. White Koala reviewed An array ofZymoseptoria triticieffectors suppress plant immune responses

   • Plant Science
   • Biotechnology

   Review published

   July 23, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

8. Andrés Posbeyikian reviewed Using AlphaFold Multimer to discover interkingdom protein-protein interactions

   • Molecular Biology
   • Immunology
   • Spectroscopy

   Review published

   June 19, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

9. Ioanna Morianou, Khong-Sam Chia, BARKHA RAVI, Vatsal Arora, and Lena Knorr reviewed A bacterial type III effector hijacks plant ubiquitin proteases to evade degradation

   • Plant Science

   Review published

   May 17, 2024

   Preprint server

   bioRxiv

10. Amelia Helen Lovelace, Alexander McClelland, and Emma Turley reviewed A fungal transcription factorBOT6facilitates the transition of a beneficial root fungus into an adapted anthracnose pathogen

    • Cell Biology
    • Plant Science

    Review published

    May 9, 2024

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv

11. Mauricio P. Contreras, AmirAli Toghani, Daniel Lüdke, Andrés Posbeyikian, and Emma C. Raven reviewed Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems

    • Plant Science
    • Molecular Biology

    Review published

    May 7, 2024

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv

12. Mauricio P. Contreras and Amelia H. Lovelace reviewed ARalstonia solanacearumtype III effector alters the actin and microtubule cytoskeleton to promote bacterial virulence in plants

    • Plant Science
    • Cell Biology

    Review published

    November 30, 2023

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv

13. Daniel Lüdke, Jiorgos Kourelis, Mauricio P. Contreras, Yu Sugihara, Jose Salguero-Linares, AmirAli Toghani, Andres Posbeyikian, Jogi Madhuprakash, and Sophien Kamoun reviewed Helper NLRs Nrc2 and Nrc3 act co-dependently with Prf/Pto and activate MAPK signaling to induce immunity in tomato

    • Plant Science

    Review published

    September 4, 2023

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv

14. Mauricio P. Contreras, Shona Strachan, Yufei Li, and Anam Siddiqui reviewed Alternative splicing of a potato disease resistance gene maintains homeostasis between development and immunity

    • Plant Science
    • Endocrinology

    Review published

    August 29, 2023

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv

15. Mauricio P. Contreras, AmirAli Toghani, Daniel Lüdke, and Andrés Posbeyikian reviewed cGLRs are a diverse family of pattern recognition receptors in animal innate immunity

    • Immunology
    • Infectious Diseases

    Review published

    April 19, 2023

    Preprint server

    bioRxiv