Publications:
Complete listing
Kvitko, B.H., Ramos, A.R., Morello, J.E., Oh, H.-S., and Collmer, A. 2007. Identification of harpins in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, which are functionally similar to HrpK1 in promoting translocation of type III secretion system effectors. J. Bacteriol. 189:8059-8072. Pubmed.
Oh, H.-S., Kvitko, B.H., Morello, J.E., and Collmer, A. 2007. Pseudomonas syringae lytic transglycosylases co-regulated with the type III secretion system contribute to the translocation of effector proteins into plant cells. J. Bacteriol. 189:8277-8299. Pubmed
Collmer, A., and Gold, S. 2007. Noel T. Keen - Pioneer Leader in Molecular Plant Pathology. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 45:25-42. Pubmed.
Ramos, A.R., Morello, J.E., Ravindran, S., Deng, W.-L., Huang, H.-C., and Collmer, A. 2007. Identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae 61 type III secretion system Hrp proteins that can travel the type III pathway and contribute to the translocation of effector proteins into plant cells. J. Bacteriol. 189:5773-5778. Pubmed.
Wei, C.-F., Kvitko, B.H., Shimizu, R., Crabill, E., Alfano, J.R., Lin, N.-C., Martin, G.B., Huang, H.-C., and Collmer, A. 2007. A Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 mutant lacking the type III effector HopQ1-1 is able to cause disease in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant J. 51:32-46. Pubmed.
Badel, J.L., Shimizu, R., Oh, H.-S., and Collmer, A. (2006) A Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato avrE1/hopM1 mutant is severely reduced in growth and lesion formation in tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 19: 99-111. Full text article.
Joardar, V., Lindeberg, M., Jackson, R.W., Selengut, J., Dodson, R., Brinkac, L.M., Daugherty, S.C., DeBoy, R., Durkin, A.S., Giglio, M.G., Madupu, R., Nelson, W.C., Rosovitz, M.J., Sullivan, S., Haft, D.H., Creasy, T., Davidsen, T., Zafar, N., Zhou, L., Halpin, R., Holley, T., Khouri, H., Feldblyum, T., White, O., Fraser, C.M., Chatterjee, Cartinhour, S., Schneider, D.J., Mansfield, J., Collmer, A., and Buell, C.R. (2005) Whole genome sequence analysis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A reveals sequence divergence among pathovars in genes involved in virulence and mobile genetic elements. J. Bacteriol 187: 6488-6498. Full text article.
Oh, H.-S., and A. Collmer. 2005. Basal resistance against bacteria
in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves is accompanied by reduced vascular staining
and suppressed by multiple Pseudomonas syringae type III secretion system effector
proteins. Plant J. 44:348-359. Full
text article.
Lindeberg, M., Stavrinides, J., Chang, J. H., Alfano, J. R., Collmer, A., Dangl,
J. L., Greenberg, J. T., Mansfield, J. W., and Guttman, D. S. 2005. Proposed
guidelines for a unified nomenclature and phylogenetic analysis of type III
Hop effector proteins in the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Mol. Plant-Microbe
Interact. 54:353-365. Abstract or Pdf.
Joardar, V., M. Lindeberg, D. J. Schneider, A. Collmer, and C. R. Buell. 2005.
Lineage specific regions in Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000. Mol. Plant
Pathol. 6:53-64. Abstract or Full
text article.
López-Solanilla, E., P. A. Bronstein, A. R. Schneider, and A. Collmer.
2004. HopPtoN is a Pseudomonas syringae Hrp (type III secretion system) cyseine
protease effector that suppresses pathogen-induced necrosis associated with
both compatible and incompatible plant interactions. Mol. Microbiol. 54:353-365. Abstract or Full
text article.
Schechter, L. M., Roberts, K. A., Jamir, Y., Alfano, J. R., and Collmer, A.
2004. Pseudomonas syringae type III secretion system targeting signals and novel
effectors studied with a Cya translocation reporter. J. Bacteriol. 186:543-555. Abstract or Pdf.
D'Ascenzo, M. D., A. R. Collmer, and G. B. Martin (2004). PeerGAD: A peer-review-based
and community-centric Web application for viewing and annotating prokaryotic
genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Research, 32:3124-3135. Abstract or Pdf. Buell
CR, Joardar V, Lindeberg M, Selengut J, Paulsen IT, Gwinn ML, Dodson RJ, Deboy
RT, Durkin AS, Kolonay JF, Madupu R, Daugherty S, Brinkac L, Beanan MJ, Haft
DH, Nelson WC, Davidsen T, Zafar N, Zhou L, Liu J, Yuan Q, Khouri H, Fedorova
N, Tran B, Russell D, Berry K, Utterback T, Van Aken SE, Feldblyum TV, D'Ascenzo
M, Deng WL, Ramos AR, Alfano JR, Cartinhour S, Chatterjee AK, Delaney TP, Lazarowitz
SG, Martin GB, Schneider DJ, Tang X, Bender CL, White O, Fraser CM, Collmer
A. (2003). The complete genome sequence of the Arabidopsis and tomato pathogen
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
100: 10181-10186 (Sept). Pubmed or pdf.
Badel, J. L., Nomura, K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Shimizu, R., Collmer, A., and He,
S. Y. 2003. Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 HopPtoM (CEL ORF3) is important
for lesion formation but not growth in tomato and is secreted and translocated
by the Hrp type III secretion system in a chaperone-dependent manner. Mol. Microbiol.
49:1239-1251. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Deng, W.-L., Rehm, A., Charkowski, A., Rojas, C. M., and Collmer, A. 2003. Pseudomonas
syringae exchangeable effector loci: sequence diversity in representative
pathovars and virulence function in P. syringae pv. syringae B728a.
J. Bacteriology 185:2592-2602. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
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Fouts,
D. E., Badel, J. L., Ramos, A. R., Rapp, R. A., and Collmer, A. 2003. A Pseudomonas
syringae pv. tomato DC3000 Hrp (type III secretion) deletion mutant
expressing the Hrp system of bean pathogen P. syringae pv. syringae 61 retains normal host specificity for tomato. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact.
16:43-52. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Rojas, C. M., Ham, J. H., Deng, W.-L., Doyl, J. J., and Collmer, A. 2002. HecA,
a member of a class of adhesins produced by diverse pathogenic bacteria, contributes
to the attachment, aggregation, epidermal cell killing, and virulence phenotypes
of Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 on Nicotiana clevelandii seedlings.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 99:13142-13147. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Badel, J. L., Charkowski, A. O., Deng, W.-L., and Collmer, A. 2002. A gene in
the Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato Hrp pathogenicity island conserved
effector locus, hopPtoA1, contributes to efficient formation of bacterial
colonies in planta and is duplicated elsewhere in the genome. Mol. Plant-Microbe
Interact. 15:1014-1024. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer, A., Lindeberg, M., Petnicki-Ocwieja, T., Schneider, D. J., and Alfano,
J. R. 2002. Genomic mining type III secretion system effectors in Pseudomonas
syringae yields new picks for all TTSS prospectors. Trends in Microbiol.
10:462-469. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Petnicki-Ocwieja,
T., Schneider, D. J., Tam, V. C., Chancey, S. T., Shan, L., Jamir, Y., Schechter,
L. M., Buell, C. R., Tang, X., Collmer, A., and Alfano, J. R. 2002. Genomewide
identification of proteins secreted by the Hrp type III protein secretion system
of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA 99:7652-7657. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
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Fouts, D. E., Abramovitch, R. B., Alfano, J. R., Baldo, A. M., Buell, C. R.,
Cartinhour, S., Chatterjee, A. K., D'Ascenzo, M., Gwinn, M. L., Lazarowitz,
S. G., Lin, N.-C., Martin, G. B., Rehm, A. H., Schneider, D. J., van Dijk, K.,
Tang, X., and Collmer, A. 2002. Genomewide identification of Pseudomonas
syringae pv. tomato DC3000 promoters controlled by the HrpL alternative
sigma factor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:2275-2280. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer,
A., A. O. Charkowski, W.-L. Deng, D. E. Fouts, J. H. Ham, A. H. Rehm, K. van
Dijk, and J. R. Alfano. 2001. Bacterial avr proteins: secreted agents of parasitism
and elicitors of plant defense, p. 36-45. In N. T. Keen, S. Mayama, J.
E. Leach, and S. Tsuyumu (ed.), Delivery and Perception of Pathogen Signals
in Plants. APS Press, St. Paul.
Alfano,
J. R., and A. Collmer. 2001. Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in plants:
Familiar foes in a foreign kingdom. E. A. Groisman (ed.), Principles of Bacterial
Pathogenesis. Academic Press, San Diego.
López-Solanilla,
E., A. Llama-Palacios, A. Collmer, F. García-Olmedo, and P. Rodríguez-Palenzuela.
2001. Relative effects on virulence of mutations in the sap, pel and hrp loci of Erwinia chrysanthemi. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact.
14:386-393. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer,
A., J. R. Alfano, D. M. Anderson, J. L. Badel, W.-L. Deng, D. E. Fouts, A. H.
Rehm, C. M. Rojas, O. Schneewind, and K. van Dijk. 2000. Hrp (type III) protein
secretion and the virulence of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia chrysanthemi,
p. 65-70. In P. J. G. M. de Wit, T. Bisseling, and W. Stiekema (ed.),
Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, vol. 2. International Society for Molecular
Plant-Microbe Interactions, St. Paul.
Peñaloza-Vázquez,
A., G. M. Preston, A. Collmer, and C. L. Bender. 2000. Regulatory interactions
between the Hrp type III protein secretion system and coronatine biosynthesis
in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Microbiology Journal article
pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer,
A., J. L. Badel, A. O. Charkowski, W.-L. Deng, D. E. Fouts, A. R. Ramos, A.
H. Rehm, D. M. Anderson, O. Schneewind, K. van Dijk, and J. R. Alfano. 2000. Pseudomonas syringae Hrp type III secretion system and effector proteins.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:8770-8777. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Alfano,
J. R., A. O. Charkowski, W.-L. Deng, J. L. Badel, T. Petnicki-Ocwieja, K. van
Dijk, and A. Collmer. 2000. The Pseudomonas syringae Hrp pathogenicity
island has a tripartite mosaic structure composed of a cluster of type III secretion
genes bounded by exchangeable effector and conserved effector loci that contribute
to parasitic fitness and pathogenicity in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
97:4856-4861. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Wei,
W., A. Plovanich-Jones, W.-L. Deng, A. Collmer, H.-C. Huang, and S. Y. He. 2000.
The gene coding for the Hrp pilus structural protein is required for type III
secretion of Hrp and Avr proteins in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:2247-2252. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Carrington,
J. C., T. Bisseling, A. Collmer, and J. D. Jones. 1999. Highlights from the
Ninth International Congress on Molecular Plant- Microbe Interactions. Plant
Cell 11:2063-2069. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Anderson,
D. M., D. E. Fouts, A. Collmer, and O. Schneewind. 1999. Reciprocal secretion
of proteins by the bacterial type III machines of plant and animal pathogens
suggests universal recognition of mRNA targeting signals. Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA 96:12839-12843. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
van
Dijk, K., D. E. Fouts, A. H. Rehm, A. R. Hill, A. Collmer, and J. R. Alfano.
1999. The Avr (effector) proteins HrmA (HopPsyA) and AvrPto are secreted in
culture from Pseudomonas syringae pathovars via the Hrp (type III) protein
secretion system in a temperature- and pH-sensitive manner. J. Bacteriol. 181:4790-4797.
Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
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Hirano,
S., A. O. Charkowski, A. Collmer, D. K. Willis, and C. D. Upper. 1999. Role
of the Hrp type III protein secretion system in growth of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a on host plants in the field. Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA 96:9851-9856. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Galán,
J. E., and A. Collmer. 1999. Type III secretion machines: ingenious bacterial
devices for protein delivery into host cells. Science 284:1322-1328. Journal article
pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer,
A., and S. V. Beer. 1998. hrp genes and their function, p. 139-148. In P. Williams, G. Salmond, and J. Ketley (ed.), Methods in Microbiology, Vol.
27: Bacterial Pathogenesis. Academic Press, New York.
Kim,
J. F., A. O. Charkowski, J. R. Alfano, A. Collmer, and S. V. Beer. 1998. Transposable
elements and bacteriophage sequences flanking Pseudomonas syringae avirulence
genes. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 11:1247-1252. Journal
article pdf.
Collmer,
A. 1998. Determinants of pathogenicity and avirulence in plant pathogenic bacteria.
Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 1:329-335. Pubmed.
Preston,
G., W.-L. Deng, H.-C. Huang, and A. Collmer. 1998. Negative regulation of hrp genes in Pseudomonas syringae by HrpV. J. Bacteriol. 180:4532-4537. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Deng,
W.-L., G. Preston, A. Collmer, C.-J. Chang, and H.-C. Huang. 1998. Characterization
of the hrpC and hrpRS operons of Pseudomonas syringae pathovars
syringae, tomato, and glycinea and analysis of the ability of hrpF, hrpG, hrcC, hrpT, and hrpV mutants to elicit the hypersensitive
response and disease in plants. J. Bacteriol. 180:4523-4531. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Charkowski,
A. O., J. R. Alfano, G. Preston, J. Yuan, S. Y. He, and A. Collmer. 1998. The Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato HrpW protein has domains similar to harpins
and pectate lyases and can elicit the plant hypersensitive response and bind
to pectate. J. Bacteriol. 180:5211-5217 Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
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Ham,
J. H., D. W. Bauer, D. E. Fouts, and A. Collmer. 1998. A cloned Erwinia chrysanthemi Hrp (type III protein secretion) system functions in Escherichia coli to deliver Pseudomonas syringae Avr signals to plant cells and to secrete
Avr proteins in culture. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:10206-10211. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Kim,
J. F., J. H. Ham, D. W. Bauer, A. Collmer, and S. V. Beer. 1998. The hrpC and hrpN operons of Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 are flanked
by plcA homologs of hemolysin/adhesin genes and accompanying activator/transporter
genes. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 11:563-567. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Lindeberg,
M. L., C. M. Boyd, N. T. Keen, and A. Collmer. 1998. External Loops at the C-terminus
of Erwinia chrysanthemi Pectate Lyase C Are Required for Species-specific
Secretion through the Out Type II Pathway. J. Bacteriol. 180:1431-1437. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Bogdanove,
A. J., J. F. Kim, Z. Wei, P. Kolchinsky, A. O. Charkowski, A. K. Conlin, A.
Collmer, and S. V. Beer. 1998. Homology and functional similarity of a hrp-linked
pathogenicity operon, dspEF, of Erwinia amylovora and the avrE locus of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato. Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA 95:1325-1330. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Alfano,
J. R., and A. Collmer. 1997. The type III (Hrp) secretion pathway of plant pathogenic
bacteria: trafficking harpins, Avr proteins, and death. J. Bacteriol. 179:5655-5662. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Charkowski,
A. O., H.-C. Huang, and A. Collmer. 1997. Altered localization of the HrpZ harpin
in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae hrp mutants suggests that
different components of the type III secretion pathway control secretion across
the inner and outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 179:3866-3874. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Alfano,
J. R., H.-S. Kim, T. P. Delaney, and A. Collmer. 1997. Evidence that the Pseudomonas
syringae pv. syringae hrp-linked hrmA gene encodes an Avr-like
protein that acts in a hrp-dependent manner within tobacco cells. Mol.
Plant-Microbe Interact. 10:580-588. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Bauer,
D. W., and A. Collmer. 1997. Molecular cloning, characterization, and mutagenesis
of a pel gene from Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans encoding a member of the Erwinia chrysanthemi PelADE family of pectate
lyases. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 10:369-379. Journal article pdf Pubmed.
Herlache,
T. C., A. T. Hotchkiss, Jr., T. J. Burr, and A. Collmer. 1997. Characterization
of the Agrobacterium vitis pehA gene and comparison of the encoded polygalacturonase
with the homologous enzymes from Erwinia carotovora and Ralstonia
solanacearum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:338-346. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
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Collmer,
A., D. W. Bauer, J. R. Alfano, G. Preston, A. O. Loniello, and T. M. Milos.
1996. Extracellular proteins as determinants of pathogenicity in Pseudomonas
syringae, p. 325-332. In K. Rudolf,
T. J. Burr, J. W. Mansfield,
D. Stead, A. Vivian, and J. Von Kietzell (ed.), Developments in Plant Pathology,
Vol. 9: Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Collmer,
A., J. R. Alfano, D. W. Bauer, G. M. Preston, A. O. Loniello, A. Conlin, J.
H. Ham, H.-C. Huang, S. Gopalan, and S. Y. He. 1996. Secreted proteins, secretion
pathways, and the plant pathogenicity of Erwinia chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas
syringae, p. 159-164. In G. Stacey, B. Mullin, and P. M. Gresshoff
(ed.), Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 4.
APS Press, St. Paul.
Alfano,
J. R., and A. Collmer. 1996. Bacterial pathogens in plants: Life up against
the wall. Plant Cell 8:1683-1698. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Collmer,
A. 1996. Bacterial avirulence proteins: where's the action? Trends Plant Sci.
1:209-210. Journal
article pdf.
Gopalan,
S., D. W. Bauer, J. R. Alfano, A. O. Loniello, S. Y. He, and A. Collmer. 1996.
Expression of the Pseudomonas syringae avirulence protein AvrB in plant
cells alleviates its dependence on the hypersensitive response and pathogenicity
(Hrp) secretion system in eliciting genotype-specific hypersensitive cell death.
Plant Cell 8:1095-1105. Journal
article pdf or Pubmed.
Lindeberg,
M., G. P. C. Salmond, and A. Collmer. 1996. Complementation of deletion mutations
in a cloned functional cluster of Erwinia chrysanthemi out genes with Erwinia carotovora out homologs reveals OutC and OutD as candidate gatekeepers
of species-specific secretion of proteins via the type II pathway. Mol. Microbiol.
20:175-190. Pubmed.
Alfano,
J. R., D. W. Bauer, T. M. Milos, and A. Collmer. 1996. Analysis of the role
of the Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae HrpZ harpin in elicitation
of the hypersensitive response in tobacco using functionally nonpolar deletion
mutations, truncated HrpZ fragments, and hrmA mutations. Mol. Microbiol.
19:715-728. Pubmed.
Preston,
G., H.‑C. Huang, S. Y. He, and A. Collmer. 1995. The HrpZ proteins of Pseudomonas syringae pvs. syringae, glycinea, and tomato are encoded by an operon containing Yersinia ysc homologs and elicit
the hypersensitive response in tomato but not soybean. Mol. Plant‑Microbe
Interact. 8:717-732. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Huang,
H.‑C., R.‑W. Lin, C.‑J. Chang, A. Collmer, and W.‑L.
Deng. 1995. The complete hrp gene cluster of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae 61 includes two blocks of genes required for harpinPss secretion
that are arranged colinearly with Yersinia ysc homologs. Mol. Plant‑Microbe
Interact. 8:733-746. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
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Alfano,
J. R., J. H. Ham, and A. Collmer. 1995. Use of Tn5tac1 to clone a pel gene encoding a highly alkaline, asparagine‑rich pectate lyase isozyme
from an Erwinia chrysanthemi mutant with deletions affecting the major
pectate lyase isozymes. J. Bacteriol. 177:4553‑4556. Journal article pdf or Pubmed.
Bauer,
D. W., Z.-M. Wei, S. V. Beer, and A. Collmer. 1995. Erwinia chrysanthemi harpinEch: an elicitor of the hypersensitive response that contributes to soft-rot
pathogenesis. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 8:484-491. Pubmed.
Collmer,
A., D. W. Bauer, J. R. Alfano, G. Preston, A. O. Loniello, H. -C. Huang, and
S. Y. He. 1994. The role of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia chrysanthemi hrp gene products in plant interactions. In M. J. Daniels (ed.), Advances
in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 3. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 49-56.
Collmer,
A. and D. W. Bauer. 1994. Erwinia chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas syringae:
trafficking in extracellular virulence proteins. In: Current Topics in Microbiology
and Immunology, Vol. 192: Bacterial Pathogenesis of Plants and Animals - Molecular
and Cellular Mechanisms. J. L. Dangl (ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 43-78.
Collmer,
A., S. Kelemu, and D. W. Bauer. 1994. Molecular biology of pathogenicity in Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16. In: Bacterial Pathogenesis and Disease Resistance:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Biotechnology and Plant
Protection. D. D. Bills and S.-D. Kung, eds. World Scientific, Singapore, pp.
73-84.
Bauer,
D. W., A. J. Bogdanove, S. V. Beer, and A. Collmer. 1994. Erwinia chrysanthemi hrp genes and their involvement in soft rot pathogenesis and elicitation
of the hypersensitive response. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 7:573-581. Pubmed.
He,
S. Y., D. W. Bauer, A. Collmer, and S. V. Beer. 1994. The hypersensitive response
elicited by Erwinia amylovora requires active plant metabolism. Molec.
Plant-Microbe Interact. 7:289-292.
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He,
S. Y., M. Lindeberg, and A. Collmer. 1993. Protein secretion by plant pathogenic
bacteria. In: Biotechnology in Plant Disease Control. I. Chet (ed.), Wiley-Liss,
New York pp. 39-64.
Beer,
S. V., Z.-M. Wei, R. J. Laby, S.-Y. He, D. W. Bauer, A. Collmer, and C. Zumoff.
1993. Are harpins universal elicitors of the hypersensitive response of phytopathogenic
bacteria? In: E. W. Nester and D. P. S. Verma (ed.), Advances in Molecular Genetics
of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
pp. 281-286.
Drennan,
J. L., A. A. G. Westra, S. A. Slack, L. M. Delserone, A. Collmer, N. C. Gudmestad,
and A. E. Oleson. 1993. Comparison of a DNA hybridization probe and an enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay for the detection of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus in field-grown potatoes. Plant Dis. 77:1243-1247.
Huang,
H.-C., Y. Xiao, R.-H. Lin, Y. Lu, S. W. Hutcheson, and A. Collmer. 1993. Characterization
of the Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae hrpJ and hrpI genes: homology of HrpI to a superfamily of proteins associated with protein
translocation. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 6:515-520.
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He,
S. Y., H.-C. Huang, and A. Collmer. 1993. Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
harpinPss: a protein that is secreted via the hrp pathway and elicits
the hypersensitive response in plants. Cell 73:1255-1266. Pubmed.
Kelemu,
S., and A. Collmer. 1993. Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 produces a second
set of plant-inducible pectate lyase isozymes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:1756-1761. Journal
abstract.
Lindeberg, M.,
and A. Collmer. 1992. Analysis of eight out genes in a cluster required for
pectic enzyme secretion by Erwinia chrysanthemi: Sequence comparison with secretion
genes from other gram-negative bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 174:7385-7397.
Wei, Z.-M., R. J. Laby, C. H. Zumoff, D. W. Bauer, S. Y. He, A. Collmer, and
S. V. Beer. 1992. Harpin, elicitor of the hypersensitive response produced by
the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. Science 257:85-88.
Huang, H.-C.,
S. Y. He, D. W. Bauer, and A. Collmer. 1992. The Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
61 hrpH product: an envelope protein required for elicitation of the hypersensitive
response in plants. J. Bacteriol. 174:6878-6885.
Chatterjee, A. K., J. L. McEvoy, H. Murata, and A. Collmer. 1991. Regulation
of the production of pectinases and other extracellular enzymes in the soft-rotting
Erwinia spp. In: Molecular Strategies of Pathogens and Host Plants. S. S. Patil,
S. Ouchi, D. Mills, and C. Vance (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York pp. 45-58.
Collmer, A., D.W. Bauer, S.Y. He, M. Lindeberg, S. Kelemu, P. Rodriquez-Palenzuela,
T.J. Burr, and A.K. Chatterjee. 1991. Pectic enzyme production and bacterial
plant pathogenicity. In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant?Microbe Interactions,
Vol. 1. H. Hennecke and D. P. S. Verma (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
pp. 65-72.
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Chatterjee, A. K., H. Murata, J.L. McEvoy, and A. Collmer. 1991. Molecular genetics
of regulation and export of Erwinia pectinases. pp. 177-196 In: Biochemistry
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Society of Europe, Vol. 32, C. J. Smith (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Brisset, M.-N., P. Rodriguez-Palenzuela, T. J. Burr, and A. Collmer. 1991. Attachment,
chemotaxis, and multiplication of Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 1 and biovar
3 on grapevine and pea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:3178-3182.
Rodriguez-Palenzuela, P., T. J. Burr, and A. Collmer. 1991. Polygalacturonase
is a virulence factor in Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3. J. Bacteriol. 173:6547-6552.
Huang, H.-C., S. W. Hutcheson, and A. Collmer. 1991. Characterization of the
hrp cluster from Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae 61 and TnphoA tagging of
genes encoding exported or membrane-spanning proteins. Molec. Plant-Microbe
Interact. 4:469-471.
He, S. Y., C. Schoedel, A. K. Chatterjee, and A. Collmer. 1991. Extracellular
secretion of pectate lyase by the Erwinia chrysanthemi Out pathway is dependent
upon Sec?mediated export across the inner membrane. J. Bacteriol. 173: 4310-4317.
Murata, H., J.L. McEvoy, A. Chatterjee, A. Collmer, and A.K. Chatterjee. 1991.
Molecular cloning of an aep gene that activates production of extracellular
pectolytic, cellulolytic and proteolytic enzymes in Erwinia carotovora subsp.
carotovora. Mol. Plant-Microb Interact. 4:239-246.
McGuire, R.G., P. Rodriguez-Palenzuela, A. Collmer, and T.J. Burr. 1991. Polygalacturonase
production by Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
57:660-664.
He, S.Y., M. Lindeberg, A.K. Chatterjee, and A. Collmer. 1991. Cloned Erwinia
chrysanthemi out genes enable Escherichia coli to selectively secrete a diverse
family of heterologous proteins to its milieu. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 88:1079-1083.
He, S.Y. and A. Collmer. 1990. Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence, and marker-exchange
mutagenesis of the exo-poly-a-D-galacturonosidase-encoding pehX gene of Erwinia
chrysanthemi EC16. J. Bacteriol 172:4988-4995.
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Brooks, A., S. Gold, N.T. Keen, S.Y. He, A. Collmer, and S.W. Hutcheson. 1990.
Molecular characterization of the structural gene for exopolygalacturonate lyase
from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 and characterization of the enzyme product. J.
Bacteriol. 172:6950-6958.
Murata, H., M. Fons, A. Chatterjee, A. Collmer, and A.K. Chatterjee. 1990. Characterization
of transposon insertion Out- mutants of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora
defective in enzyme export and a DNA segment that complements out mutations
in E. carotovora subsp. carotovora, E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica and E.
chrysanthemi. J. Bacteriol. 172:2970-2978.
Hutcheson, S.W., A. Collmer, and C.J. Baker. 1989. Elicitation of the hypersensitive
response by Pseudomonas syringae. Physiol. Plant. 76:155-163.
Collmer, A., J.L. Ried, G.L. Cleveland, S.Y. He, and A.D. Brooks. 1988. Mutational
analysis of the role of pectic enzymes in the virulence of Erwinia chrysanthemi.
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Collmer, A., J.L. Ried, A.D. Brooks, and S.Y. He. 1988. Pectic enzyme production
and Erwinia chrysanthemi pathogenicity. In: Physiology and Biochemistry of Plant-Microbial
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Collmer, A., A.D. Brooks, S.Y. He, and G.L. Cleveland. 1988. Construction and
characterization of Erwinia chrysanthemi mutants containing mutations in genes
encoding extracellular pectic enzymes. In: Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe
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Collmer, A., J.L. Ried, and M.S. Mount. 1988. Assay methods for pectic enzymes.
Meth. Enzymol. 161:329-335.
Ried, J.L. and A. Collmer. 1988. Construction and characterization of an Erwinia
chrysanthemi mutant with directed deletions in all of the pectate lyase structural
genes. Molec. Plant Microbe Interactions 1:32-38.
Huang, H.C., R. Schuurink, T.P. Denny, M.M. Atkinson, C.J. Baker, I. Yucel,
S.W. Hutcheson, and A. Collmer. 1988. Molecular cloning of a Pseudomonas syringae
pv syringae gene cluster that enables Pseudomonas fluorescens to elicit the
hypersensitive response in tobacco. J. Bacteriol. 170:4748-4756.
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Civerolo, E.L., A. Collmer, R.E. Davis, and A.G. Gillaspie (eds.). 1987. Proceedings
of the Sixth International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, College
Park, Maryland, 1985. Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht. 1055 pp.
Roeder, D.L., and A. Collmer. 1987. Marker-exchange mutagenesis of the pelB
gene in Erwinia chrysanthemi CUCPB 1237. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, June 2-6, 1985, College Park, Maryland.
E.L. Civerolo, A. Collmer, A.G. Gillaspie and R.E. Davis (eds.), Martinus Nijhoff,
Dordrecht pp. 218-223.
Ried, J.L. and A. Collmer. 1987. An npt-sacB-sacR cartridge for constructing
directed, unmarked mutations in Gram- negative bacteria by marker exchange-eviction
mutagenesis. Gene 57:239-246.
Payne, J.H., C. Schoedel, N.T. Keen, and A. Collmer. 1987. Multiplication and
virulence in plant tissues of Escherichia coli clones producing pectate lyase
isozymes PLb and PLe at high levels and of an Erwinia chrysanthemi mutant deficient
in PLe. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:2315- 2320.
Baker, C.J., M.M. Atkinson, and A. Collmer. 1987. Concurrent loss in Tn5 mutants
of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae of the ability to induce the hypersensitive
response and host plasma membrane K+/H+ exchange in tobacco. Phytopathology
77:1268-1272.
Collmer, A. 1986. Pectic enzymes and bacterial invasion of plants. In: Plant-Microbe
Interactions - Molecular and Genetic Perspectives, Vol. 2. T. Kosuge and E.W.
Nester (eds.), Macmillan Publishing Co., New York. pp. 253-284.
Collmer, A. 1986. The molecular biology of pectic enzyme production and bacterial
soft rot pathogenesis. In: Biology and Molecular Biology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions.
J.A. Bailey (ed.), Plenum, New York. pp. 277-289.
Collmer, A., and N.T. Keen. 1986. The role of pectic enzymes in plant pathogenesis.
Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 24:383-409.
Schoedel, C., and A. Collmer. 1986. Evidence of homology between the pectate
lyase-encoding pelB and pelC genes in Erwinia chrysanthemi. J. Bacteriol. 167:117-123.
Ried, J.L., and A. Collmer. 1986. Comparison of pectic enzymes produced by Erwinia
chrysanthemi, Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora, and Erwinia carotovora subsp.
atroseptica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 52:305-310.
Baker, C.J., M.M. Atkinson, M.A. Roy, and A. Collmer. 1986. Inhibition of the
hypersensitive response in tobacco by pectate lyase. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol
29:217-225.
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Atkinson, M.M., C.J. Baker, and A. Collmer. 1986. Transient activation of a
plasmalemma K+ efflux and H+ influx in tobacco by a pectate lyase isozyme from
Erwinia chrysanthemi. Plant Physiol. 82:142-146.
Collmer, A., C. Schoedel, D.L. Roeder, and J.L. Ried. 1985. Molecular cloning
of Erwinia chrysanthemi pectate lyase isozyme genes and their expression in
Escherichia coli. In: Advances in the Molecular Genetics of the Bacteria-Plant
Interaction. A.A. Szalay and R.P. Legocki (eds.), Media Services, Cornell University,
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Roeder, D.L., and A. Collmer. 1985. Marker-exchange mutagenesis of a pectate
lyase isozyme gene in Erwinia chrysanthemi. J. Bacteriol. 164:51-56.
Ried, J.L., and A. Collmer. 1985. An activity stain for the rapid characterization
of pectic enzymes in isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide
gels. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 50:615-622.
Collmer, A., C. Schoedel, D.L. Roeder, J.L. Ried, and J.F. Rissler. 1985. Molecular
cloning in Escherichia coli of Erwinia chrysanthemi genes encoding multiple
forms of pectate lyase. J. Bacteriol. 161:913-920
Collmer, A., and D. B. Wilson. 1983. Cloning and expression of a Thermomonospora
YX endocellulase gene in E. coli. Biotechnology 1:594-601.
Collmer, A., P. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1982. Pectate lyase regulation and
bacterial soft-rot pathogenesis. In: M. S. Mount and G. H. Lacy (eds.), Phytopathogenic
Prokaryotes, Vol. 1. Academic Press, New York. pp 395-422.
Collmer, A., C. H. Whalen, S. V. Beer, and D. F. Bateman. 1982. An exo-poly-a-D-galacturonosidase
implicated in the regulation of extracellular pectate lyase production in Erwinia
chrysanthemi. J. Bacteriol. 149:626- 634.
Collmer, A., and D. F. Bateman. 1982. Regulation of extracellular pectate lyase
in Erwinia chrysanthemi: evidence that reaction products of pectate lyase and
exo-poly-a-D galacturonosidase mediate induction on D-galacturonan. Physiol.
Plant Pathol. 21:127-139.
Collmer, A., and D. F. Bateman. 1981. Impaired induction and self-catabolite
repression of extracellular pectate lyase in Erwinia chrysanthemi mutants deficient
in oligogalacturonide lyase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78:3920-3924.
Collmer, A., and M. Lamborg. 1976. Arrangement and regulation of the nitrogen
fixation genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 126:806-813.