Rei Yoshimoto, Fumiko Ishida, Miyuki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Tanaka.

The production and secretion of tRNA-derived RNA fragments in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis.

Frontiers in Fungal Biology (2022). 3:958798.

Shigeyuki Tanaka, Isabelle Gollin, Nicole Rössel, Regine Kahmann.

The functionally conserved effector Sta1 is a fungal cell wall protein required for virulence in Ustilago maydis.

New Phytologist (2020). 227(1) 185 – 199.

Shigeyuki Tanaka, Gabriel Schweizer, Nicole Rössel, Fumi Fukada, Marco Thines, Regine Kahmann.

Neofunctionalization of the secreted Tin2 effector in the fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis.

Nature Microbiology (2019). 4(2) 251 – 257.

Highlighted in Nature Microbiology Vol. 4, pp. 210–211. (2019).

Shigeyuki Tanaka, Armin Djamei, Libera Lo Presti, Kerstin Schipper, Sarah Winterberg, Simone Amati, Dirk Becker, Heike Büchner, Jochen Kumlehn, Stefanie Reissmann, Regine Kahmann.

Experimental approaches to investigate effector translocation into host cells in the Ustilago maydis/maize pathosystem.

European Journal of Cell Biology (2015). 94(7-9) 349 – 358.

Thomas Brefort*, Shigeyuki Tanaka*, Nina Neidig*, Gunther Doehlemann*, Volker Vincon, Regine Kahmann.

Characterization of the largest effector gene cluster of Ustilago maydis.

PLoS Pathogens (2014). 10(7) e1003866.

*Equal contribution

Highlighted in Nature Reviews Microbiology Vol.12, pp. 532. (2014).

Shigeyuki Tanaka, Thomas Brefort, Nina Neidig, Armin Djamei, Jörg Kahnt, Wilfred Vermerris, Stefanie Koenig, Kirstin Feussner, Ivo Feussner, Regine Kahmann.

A secreted Ustilago maydis effector promotes virulence by targeting anthocyanin biosynthesis in maize.

eLife (2014). 3 e01355.

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