• A Conserved Microbial Motif ‘Traps’ Protease Activation in Host Immunity 

      Sabale, Mugdha; Di Pietro, Antonio; Redkar, Amey (Cell Press, 2019)
      A recent study (Misas-Villamil et al., Nat. Commun., 2019) reveals that Pit2, an apoplastic effector of the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis, contains an embedded motif of 14 amino acids that binds to and inhibits plant ...
    • A PR-1-like Protein of Fusarium oxysporum Functions in Virulence on Mammalian Hosts 

      Prados Rosales, Rafael; Roldán-Rodríguez, Raquel; Serena, Carolina; Sánchez López-Berges, M.; Guarro, Josep; Martínez-del-Pozo, Álvaro; Di Pietro, Antonio (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Online, 2012)
      The pathogenesis-related PR-1-like protein family comprises secreted proteins from the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms whose biological function remains poorly understood. Here we have characterized a PR-1-like protein, ...
    • How alkalinization drives fungal pathogenicity 

      Ribeiro Fernandes, Tânia Alícia; Segorbe, David; Prusky, Dov; Di Pietro, Antonio (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      pH governs most, if not all, processes of life. In fungi, ambient pH acts as a potent regulator of growth and development [1]. Studies conducted primarily in the 2 model organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus ...
    • The homeodomain transcription factor Ste12: Connecting fungal MAPK signalling to plant pathogenicity 

      Rispail, Nicolás; Di Pietro, Antonio (Landes Bioscience, 2010)
      A conserved mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade orthologous to the mating/filamentation MAPK pathway in yeast is required for fungal pathogenicity on plants. One of the key targets of this signalling pathway ...