Center for Plant Molecular Biology

Research Group Erickson

Bacterial Apoplast Modulators

The BAM group explores how apoplast dwelling bacteria manipulate their host environment to cause disease.


2024

Erickson JL*, Schuster M*. Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 82:102621.    

Yuen ELH, Savage Z, Adamkova V, Vuolo C, Zhou Y, Tumtas Y, Erickson JL, Prautsch J, Balmez AI, Stuttmann J, Duggan C, Rivetti F, Molinari C, Schattat M, Bozkurt TO. Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses. bioRxiv doi: doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463641 (revised version)

2023

Ortmann S, Marx J, Lampe C, Ehnert T-M, Zinecker S, Reimers M, Bonas U, Erickson JL*A conserved microtubule-binding region in Xanthomonas XopL is indispensable for induced plant cell death reactions. PLOS Pathog. 19(8): e1011263 (selected for cover image). 

Erickson JL, Prautsch J, Reynvoet F, Niemeyer F, Hause G, Johnstron IG, Schattat MH.* Stromule geometry allows optimal spatial regulation of organelle interactions in the quasi-2D cytoplasm. Plant Cell Physiol. Sep:pcad098.

Prautsch J, Erickson JL, Özyürek S, Gromanns R, Franke L, Lu Y, Marx J, Niemeyer R, Parker JE, Stuttmann J, Schattat MH*. Effector XopQ-induced stromule formation in Nicotiana benthamiana depends on ETI signaling components ADR1 and NRG1. Plant Physiol. 191(1):161-176 (selected for cover image).

2022

Erickson JL, Weckwerth P, Romeis T, Lee J.* What’s new in protein kinase/phosphatase signaling in the control of plant immunity? Invited review. Essays Biochem 66(5): 621-630.      

Zönnchen J, Gantner J, Lapin D, Barthel K, Eschen-Lippold L, Erickson JL, Villanueva SL, Zantop S, Kretschmer C, Joosten MHAJ, Parker JE, Guerois R, Stuttman J.* EDS1 complexes are not required for PRR responses and execute TNL-ETI from the nucleus of Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytol. 236(6): 2249-2264.         

2021

Stuttmann JS*, Barthel K, Martin P, Ordon J, Erickson JL, Herr R, Ferik F, Kretschmer C, Berner T, Keilwagen J, Marillonnet S, Bonas U. Highly efficient multiplex edition: one-shot generation of 8x Nicotiana benthamiana and 12x Arabidopsis mutants. Plant J. 106:8-22 (selected for cover image and SEB-Wiley-TPJ award for outstanding TPJ papers for 2021).               

2018

Erickson JL, Schattat, MH*. Shaping plastid stromules – principles of in vitro membrane tubulation applied in planta. (Invited review) Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 46: 48-54.               

Erickson JL, Adlung N, Lampe C, Bonas U, Schattat MH.* The Xanthomonas effector XopL uncovers the role of microtubules in stromule extension and dynamics in N. benthamiana. Plant J. 93(5):856-870.

2017

Erickson JL, Kantek M, Schattat MH.* Plastid-nucleus distance alters the behaviour of stromules. Front. Plant Sci. 8: 1135.     

2016

Keilwagen J, Wend M, Erickson JL, Schattat MH.* Using intron position conservation for homology-based gene prediction. Nucleic Acids Res. 44(9): -e89.        

2015

Franke L, Erickson JL, Rödel D, Schröter D, Storbeck B, Möller B, Schattat, MH.* The “MTB Cell Counter” a versatile tool for the semi-automated quantification of sub-cellular phenotypes in fluorescence microscopy images. A case study on plastids, nuclei, and peroxisomes. Endocytobiosis Cell Res., 26, 031-042.         

2014

Erickson JL, Ziegler J, Guevara D, Abel S, Klösgen RB, Mathur J, Rothstein SJ, Schattat MH.* Agrobacterium-derived cytokinin influences plastid morphology and starch accumulation in Nicotiana benthamiana during transient assays. BMC Plant Biol. 14: 127.

Ziegler J, Qwegwer J, Schubert M, Erickson JL, Schattat MH, Bürstenbinder K, Grubb DC , Abel S.* Simultaneous analysis of apolar phytohormones and 1- aminocyclopropan-1-carboxylic acid by high performance liquid chromatography/ electrospray negative ion tandem mass spectrometry via 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl chloride derivatization. J. Chromatography A. 1362: 102-109.

Pahari S, Cormark RD, Blackshaw MT, Liu C, Erickson JL, Schultz EA.* Arabidopsis UNHINGED encodes a VPS51 homolog and reveals a role for the GARP complex in leaf shape and vein patterning. Dev. 141: 1894-1905.

2011

Erickson, JL. * Formation and maintenance of morphogen gradients; an essential role for the endomembrane system in Drosophila melanogaster wing development. Fly 5(3): 266-271.            

2010

Hou H, Erickson J, Meservy J and Schultz EA.* FORKED1 encodes a PH domain protein that is required for PIN1 localization in developing leaf veins. Plant J. 63(6): 960-973 (selected for cover image).        

 

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