AmirAli Toghani

Publications

Subfunctionalization of NRC3 altered the genetic structure of the Nicotiana NRC network

2024

PLoS genetics
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Ching-Yi Huang, Yu-Seng Huang, Yu Sugihara, Hung-Yu Wang, Lo-Ting Huang, Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo, Yi-Feng Chen, Kuan-Yu Lin, Bing-Jen Chiang, AmirAli Toghani, Jiorgos Kourelis, Chun-Hsiung Wang, Lida Derevnina, Chih-Hang Wu*

A disease resistance protein triggers oligomerization of its NLR helper into a hexameric resistosome to mediate innate immunity

2024

bioRxiv
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Jogi Madhuprakash*, AmirAli Toghani, Mauricio P Contreras, Andres Posbeyikian, Jake Richardson, Jiorgos Kourelis, Tolga O Bozkurt, Michael W Webster*, Sophien Kamoun*

Helper NLR immune protein NRC3 evolved to evade inhibition by a cyst nematode virulence effector

2024

bioRxiv
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Yu Sugihara, Jiorgos Kourelis, Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Muniyandi Selvaraj, AmirAli Toghani, Claudia Martinez-Anaya*, Sophien Kamoun*

Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome

2023

bioRxiv
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Muniyandi Selvaraj, AmirAli Toghani, Hsuan Pai, Yu Sugihara, Jiorgos Kourelis, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Tarhan Ibrahim, He Zhao, Rongrong Xie, Abbas Maqbool, Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Mark J Banfield, Lida Derevnina, Benjamin Petre, David M Lawson, Tolga O Bozkurt, Chih-Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun*, Mauricio P Contreras*

A root-specific NLR network confers resistance to plant parasitic nematodes

2023

bioRxiv
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Daniel Lüdke, Toshiyuki Sakai, Jiorgos Kourelis, AmirAli Toghani, Hiroaki Adachi, Andres Posbeyikian, Raoul Frijters, Hsuan Pai, Adeline Harant, Karin Ernst, Martin Ganal, Adriaan Verhage, Chih-Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun*

REVIEW: NLR receptors in plant immunity: making sense of the alphabet soup

2023

EMBO reports
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Mauricio P Contreras*, Daniel Lüdke, Hsuan Pai, AmirAli Toghani, Sophien Kamoun*

Functional diversification of a wild potato immune receptor at its center of origin

2023

Science
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Yerisf C Torres Ascurra, Lisha Zhang, AmirAli Toghani, Chenlei Hua, Nandeesh Jalahalli Rangegowda, Andres Posbeyikian, Hsuan Pai, Xiao Lin, Pieter J Wolters, Doret Wouters, Reinhoud de Blok, Niels Steigenga, Maxence JM Paillart, Richard GF Visser, Sophien Kamoun, Thorsten Nürnberger*, Vivianne GAA Vleeshouwers*

Resurrection of plant disease resistance proteins via helper NLR bioengineering

2023

Science Advances
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Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Muniyandi Selvaraj, AmirAli Toghani, David M Lawson, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Clare EM Stevenson, Adeline Harant, Abbas Maqbool, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga O Bozkurt, Sophien Kamoun*, Lida Derevnina*

An atypical NLR protein modulates the NRC immune receptor network in Nicotiana benthamiana

2023

PLoS genetics
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Hiroaki Adachi*, Toshiyuki Sakai, Adeline Harant, Hsuan Pai, Kodai Honda, AmirAli Toghani, Jules Claeys, Cian Duggan, Tolga O Bozkurt, Chih-hang Wu*, Sophien Kamoun*

Protocols

Phylogenomics of Plant NLR Immune Receptors to Identify Functionally Conserved Sequence Motifs

2024

Bio-protocol
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Toshiyuki Sakai, AmirAli Toghani, Hiroaki Adachi*

Datasets

AlphaFold 3 predicted NLR resistosome structures

2024

Zenodo
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AmirAli Toghani, Tolga O Bozkurt, Sophien Kamoun

NLRome dataset from 124 genomes of plants in the Solanaceae family

2023

Zenodo
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Yu Sugihara, AmirAli Toghani, Sophien Kamoun, Jiorgos Kourelis

Poster Presentations

What is driving the diversification of the N-terminal α1-helix of NRC helper NLRs?

2023

BSPP Plant Pathology, Birmingham, UK
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AmirAli Toghani, Mauricio P Contreras, Yu Sugihara, Jiorgos Kourelis, Hiroaki Adachi, Sophien Kamoun*

Phylogenetically conserved TIR-NLR proteins induce transcriptional reprogramming

2022

Mendel Early Career Symposium (Mendel ECR), Vienna, Austria
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AmirAli Toghani, A. Cristina Barragan, Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Toshiyuki Sakai, Jules Claeys, Hiroaki Adachi, Daniel Lüdke, Sophien Kamoun*