Publications:
Reviews, book chapters, and books
Lindeberg, M., Cartinhour, S., Myers, C.R., Schechter, L.M., Schneider, D.J., and Collmer, A. 2006. Closing the circle on the discovery of genes encoding Hrp regulon members and type III secretion system effectors in the genomes of three model Pseudomonas syringae strains. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 19:1151-1158. Pubmed.
Alfano, J.R., and Collmer, A. 2004. Type III secretion system effector proteins: double agents in bacterial disease and plant defense. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 42:385-414. Pubmed.
Collmer, A., Alfano, J.R., Buell, C.R., Cartinhour, S., Chatterjee, A.K., Delaney, T.P., Lazarowitz, S.G., Martin, G.B., Schneider, D.J., and Tang, X. 2004. Pseudomonas syringae: functional genomics and plant pathogenicity. In Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Volume 4. Tikhonovic, I., Lugtenberg, B. and Provorov, N. (eds). St. Paul: International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, pp. 105-108.
Preston, G.M., and Collmer, A. 2004. The type III secretion systems of plant-associated pseudomonads: genes and proteins on the move. In Pseudomonas, Volume 2. Ramos, J.-L. (ed). New York: Plenum Press, pp. 181-219.
Iacobellis, N.S., Collmer, A., Hutcheson, S.W., Mansfield, J.W., Morris, C.E., Murlillo, J., Schaad, N.W., Stead, D.E., Surico, G., and Ullrich, M.S. 2003. Pseudomonas syringae and Related Pathogens: Biology and Genetics: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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. Pubmed.
Alfano, J.R., and Collmer, A. 2001. Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in plants: Familiar foes in a foreign kingdom. In Principles of Bacterial Pathogenesis. Groisman, E.A. (ed). San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 176-226.
Collmer, A., Charkowski, A.O., Deng, W.-L., Fouts, D.E., Ham, J.H., Rehm, A.H., van Dijk, K., and Alfano, J.R. 2001. Bacterial Avr proteins: secreted agents of parasitism and elicitors of plant defense. In Delivery and Perception of Pathogen Signals in Plants. Keen, N.T., Mayama, S., Leach, J.E. and Tsuyumu, S. (eds). St. Paul: APS Press, pp. 36-45.
Collmer, A., Alfano, J.R., Anderson, D.M., Badel, J.L., Deng, W.-L., Fouts, D.E., Rehm, A.H., Rojas, C.M., Schneewind, O., and van Dijk, K. 2000. Hrp (type III) protein secretion and the virulence of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia chrysanthemi. In Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, vol. 2. de Wit, P.J.G.M., Bisseling, T. and Stiekema, W. (eds). St. Paul: International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, pp. 65-70.
Galán, J.E., and Collmer, A. 1999. Type III secretion machines: bacterial devices for protein delivery into host cells. Science 284:1322-1328.
Collmer, A. 1998. Determinants of pathogenicity and avirulence in plant pathogenic bacteria. Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 1:329-335. Pubmed.
Collmer, A., and Beer, S.V. 1998. hrp genes and their function. In Methods in Microbiology, Vol. 27: Bacterial Pathogenesis. Williams, P., Salmond, G. and Ketley, J. (eds). New York: Academic Press, pp. 139-148.
Alfano, J.R., and Collmer, A. 1997. The type III (Hrp) secretion pathway of plant pathogenic bacteria: trafficking harpins, Avr proteins, and death. J. Bacteriol. 179:5655-5662. Pubmed.
Alfano, J.R., and Collmer, A. 1996. Bacterial pathogens in plants: Life up against the wall. Plant Cell 8:1683-1698.
Collmer, A. 1996. Bacterial avirulence proteins: where's the action? Trends Plant Sci. 1:209-210.
Collmer, A., Alfano, J.R., Bauer, D.W., Preston, G.M., Loniello, A.O., Conlin, A., Ham, J.H., Huang, H.-C., Gopalan, S., and He, S.Y. 1996. Secreted proteins, secretion pathways, and the plant pathogenicity of Erwinia chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas syringae. In Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 4. Stacey, G., Mullin, B. and Gresshoff, P.M. (eds). St. Paul: APS Press, pp. 159-164.
Collmer, A., Bauer, D.W., Alfano, J.R., Preston, G., Loniello, A.O., and Milos, T.M. 1996. Extracellular proteins as determinants of pathogenicity in Pseudomonas syringae. In Developments in Plant Pathology, Vol. 9: Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens. Rudolf, K., Burr, T.J., Mansfield, J.W., Stead, D., Vivian, A. and Von Kietzell, J. (eds). Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 325-332.