Research articles

• Ali J, Yu M, Sung LK, Cheung YW, and Lai EM* (2023) A glycine zipper motif
  is required for the translocation of a T6SS toxic effector into target
  cells. EMBO Rep e56849 https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202356849
• Wang SC, Chen AP, Chou SJ, Kuo CH*, and Lai EM* (2023) Soil Inoculation and Blocker-Mediated Sequencing Show Effects of the Antibacterial T6SS on Agrobacterial Tumorigenesis and Gallobiome. mBio March 6: e00177-23 https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00177-23
• Yu M, Wang YC, Huang CJ, Ma LS, and Lai EM*. (2020) Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Versatile Antibacterial Strategy to Increase its Competitiveness. J Bacteriol. 2020 Nov 9:JB.00490-20. doi: 10.1128/JB.00490-20. 
• Lin HH, Yu M, Sriramoju MK, Hsu ST, Liu CT^*, and Lai EM^* (2020) A high-throughput interbacterial competition screen identifies ClpAP in enhancing recipient susceptibility to type VI secretion system-mediated attack by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Front. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.03077.
• Santos MNM, Cho ST, Wu CF, Chang CJ, Kuo CH, and Lai EM^* (2020) Redundancy and specificity of type VI secretion vgrG loci in antibacterial activity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 1D1609 strain. Front. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.03004.
• Wu CF, Lien YW, Bondage D, Lin JS, Pilhofer M, Shih YL, Chang JH, Lai EM*. (2019) Effector loading onto the VgrG carrier activates type VI secretion system assembly. EMBO Rep. 2019 Dec 5:e47961. doi: 10.15252/embr.201947961.
• Wu CF, Santos Santos MNM, Cho ST, Chang HH, Tsai YM, Smith DA, Kuo CH*, Chang JH*, Lai EM* (2019) Plant pathogenic Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains have diverse type VI effector-immunity pairs and vary in in planta competitiveness. Mol Plant-Microbe Interact. Mar 4. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-01-19-0021-R.(Editor's pick)
• Wang YC, Yu M, Shih PY, Wu HY, Lai EM* (2018) Stable pH Suppresses Defense Signaling and is the Key to Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Expression in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Sci Rep 8(1):17071. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34949-9.
• Lin JS, P Panayiota, Wu HH, Tsai MD, Filloux A, and Lai EM^* (2018) TagF-mediated repression of bacterial type VI secretion systems involves a direct interaction with the cytoplasmic protein Fha. J Biol Chem. 2018 293(23) 8829–8842. pii: jbc.RA117.001618. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.001618.
• Shih PY, Chou SJ, Mueller C, Halkier BA, Deeken R, and Lai EM^* (2018) Differential Roles of Glucosinolates and Camalexin at Different Stages of Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation. Mol Plant Pathol. 19 (8), 1956–1970 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12672. (recommended by Faculty 1000)
• Bondage D, Lin JS, Ma LS, Kuo CH, and Lai EM* (2016) VgrG C-terminus confers the type VI effector transport specificity and is required for binding with PAAR and adaptor-effector complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Jul 5;113(27):E3931-40. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600428113. (recommended by Faculty 1000)
• Ma LS, Hachani A, Lin JS, Filloux A*, and Lai EM.* (2014) Agrobacterium tumefaciens deploys a superfamily of type VI secretion DNase effectors as weapons for interbacterial competition in planta. Cell Host & Microbe. Jul 9;16(1):94-104. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.06.002. (recommended by Faculty 1000)
• Wu HY, Liu KH, Wang YC, Wu JF, Chiu WL, Chen CY, Wu SH, Sheen J, and Lai EM.* (2014) AGROBEST: an efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression method for versatile gene function analysis in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Methods. Jun 18;10:19. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-19. (recommended by Faculty 1000)
• Lin, J. S., Wu, H. H., Hsu, P. H., Ma, L. S., Pang, Y. Y., Tsai, M. D., and Lai, E. M.* (2014) Fha interaction with phosphothreonine of TssL activates type VI secretion in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PLoS Pathog. Mar 13;10(3):e1003991. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003991.

Reviews or commentaries

• Ali J. and Lai EM* (2023). Distinct TssA proteins converge in coordinating tail biogenesis of the type VI secretion systems. BioEssays, e2200219. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202200219
• Wu HY and Lai EM* (2022) AGROBEST: a highly efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression system in Arabidopsis seedlings. Methods Mol Biol Plant Synthetic Biology, 113-123. New York, NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1791-5_7. (Invited book chapter)
• Lin HH, Filloux A, and Lai EM^* Role of Recipient Susceptibility Factors During Contact-Dependent Interbacterial Competition. (2020) Front. Microbiol. 11:603652. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.603652.
• Hwang HH*, Yu M, and Lai EM*. (2017) Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation: biology and applications. The Arabidopsis Book 15: e0186. USA: American Society of Plant Biologists.: e0186. doi: 10.1199/tab.0186.
• Lien YW and Lai EM* (2017) Type VI secretion effectors: methodologies and Biology. Front Cell Infect Microbiol Jun 15;7:254. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00254.
• Yu M and Lai EM* (2017) Warfare between Host Immunity and Bacterial Weapons. Cell Host & Microbe Jan 11;21(1):3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.12.012.