Lay-Sun Ma

Employment

• Academia Sinica PI / Dr
  2018 - Present

Education

• Academia Sinica
  2006 - 2011

Projects & Funding

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Publications (22)

• N-glycosylation mediates smut effector adaptation toward a host pectin methylesterase inhibitor
  The Plant Cell 2026 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koag234
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• Molecular puppeteering: Roles of Ustilago maydis effectors
  Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2025.102792
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• Biotic interactions- focus on the apoplastic playground
  Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/J.PBI.2025.102700
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• N-glycosylation Enables Smut Fungal Nge1 Orthologs to Prevent the Escape of Maize Evolved-PMEIs
  BioRxiv 2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.01.646729
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• Ustilago maydis N-glycosylated apoplastic effector ALE1 targets maize ZmTaxi to counteract its attack on UmXylanase 11A
  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2024
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• Ustilago maydis PR-1-like protein has evolved two distinct domains for dual virulence activities
  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2024
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• Fungal Cell Wall-Associated Effectors: Sensing, Integration, Suppression, and Protection
  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2024 DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-23-0142-FI
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• Ustilago maydis PR-1-like protein has evolved two distinct domains for dual virulence activities
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41459-4
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• Maize Antifungal Protein AFP1 Elevates Fungal Chitin Levels by Targeting Chitin Deacetylases and Other Glycoproteins
  mBio 2023 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00093-23
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• A Novel Core Effector Vp1 Promotes Fungal Colonization and Virulence of Ustilago maydis
  Journal of Fungi 2021 DOI: 10.3390/jof7080589
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• Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Versatile Antibacterial Strategy To Increase Its Competitiveness
  Journal of Bacteriology 2021 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00490-20
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• A cell surface-exposed protein complex with an essential virulence function in Ustilago maydis
  Nature Microbiology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/S41564-021-00896-X
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• Repeat-containing effectors of filamentous pathogens and symbionts
  Current Opinion in Microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/J.MIB.2018.01.007
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• The Ustilago maydis repetitive effector Rsp3 blocks the antifungal activity of mannose-binding maize proteins
  Nature Communications 2018 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-04149-0
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• Ustilago maydis effectors and their impact on virulence
  Nature Reviews Microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.1038/NRMICRO.2017.33
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• VgrG C terminus confers the type VI effector transport specificity and is required for binding with PAAR and adaptor-effector complex
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.1600428113
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• Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Superfamily of Type VI Secretion DNase Effectors as Weapons for Interbacterial Competition In Planta
  Cell Host & Microbe 2014 DOI: 10.1016/J.CHOM.2014.06.002
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• Fha Interaction with Phosphothreonine of TssL Activates Type VI Secretion in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
  PLOS Pathogens 2014 DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PPAT.1003991
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• Systematic Dissection of the Agrobacterium Type VI Secretion System Reveals Machinery and Secreted Components for Subcomplex Formation
  Plos One 2013 DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0067647
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• IcmF Family Protein TssM Exhibits ATPase Activity and Energizes Type VI Secretion
  Journal of Biological Chemistry 2012 DOI: 10.1074/JBC.M111.301630
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