Huijuan Yan, PhD | The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine

Transcriptome analysis of maize pathogen Fusarium verticillioides revealed FvLcp1, a secreted protein with type-D fungal LysM and chitin-binding domains, that plays important roles in pathogenesis and mycotoxin production.

Microbiological research

Zhang H, Kim MS, Huang J, Yan H, Yang T, Song L, Yu W, Shim WB

Distinct Function of Mediator Subunits in Fungal Development, Stress Response, and Secondary Metabolism in Maize Pathogen Fusarium verticillioides.

Phytopathology

Zhou Z, Yan H, Kim MS, Shim WB

Leveraging machine learning essentiality predictions and chemogenomic interactions to identify antifungal targets.

Nature communications

Fu C, Zhang X, Veri AO, Iyer KR, Lash E, Xue A, Yan H, Revie NM, Wong C, Lin ZY, Polvi EJ, Liston SD, VanderSluis B, Hou J, Yashiroda Y, Gingras AC, Boone C, O'Meara TR, O'Meara MJ, Noble S, Robbins N, Myers CL, Cowen LE

Fusarium verticillioides Induces Maize-Derived Ethylene to Promote Virulence by Engaging Fungal G-Protein Signaling.

Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI

Park YS, Borrego EJ, Gao X, Christensen SA, Schmelz E, Lanubile A, Drab DA, Cody W, Yan H, Shim WB, Kolomiets MV

Fusarium verticillioides FvPex8 Is a Key Component of the Peroxisomal Docking/Translocation Module That Serves Important Roles in Fumonisin Biosynthesis but Not in Virulence.

Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI

Yu W, Lin M, Peng M, Yan H, Wang J, Zhou J, Lu G, Wang Z, Shim WB

Two regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) proteins FlbA1 and FlbA2 differentially regulate fumonisin B1 biosynthesis in Fusarium verticillioides.

Current genetics

Yan H, Zhou Z, Shim WB

Characterization of non-canonical G beta-like protein FvGbb2 and its relationship with heterotrimeric G proteins in Fusarium verticillioides.

Environmental microbiology

Yan H, Shim WB

Fusarium verticillioides SNARE protein FvSyn1 harbours two key functional motifs that play selective roles in fungal development and virulence.

Microbiology (Reading, England)

Zhang H, Yan H, Shim WB

A Rab GTPase protein FvSec4 is necessary for fumonisin B1 biosynthesis and virulence in Fusarium verticillioides.

Current genetics

Yan H, Huang J, Zhang H, Shim WB

Characterizing co-expression networks underpinning maize stalk rot virulence in Fusarium verticillioides through computational subnetwork module analyses.

Scientific reports

Kim MS, Zhang H, Yan H, Yoon BJ, Shim WB

Aspergillus nidulans flippase DnfA is cargo of the endocytic collar and plays complementary roles in growth and phosphatidylserine asymmetry with another flippase, DnfB.

Molecular microbiology

Schultzhaus Z, Yan H, Shaw BD

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