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PUBLICATIONS

Clubroot Disease

Vañó, M.S., Nourimand, M., MacLean, A.M.,  Pérez-López, E. (2023) Getting to the root of a club–Understanding developmental manipulation by the clubroot pathogen

Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 148:22-32

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.02.005

Biopharming 

Demone, J., Maltseva, M., Nourimand, M., Nasr-Sharif, M.,  Galipeau, Y., Alarcon, E.I., Langlois, M.A., and A.M. MacLean (2022) Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and subunit vaccines.

PLoS One 17:e0277668.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277668

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Power, M., Azad, T., Bell, J.C., and A.M. MacLean (2022)

Plant-based expression of SARS-CoV-2 antigen for use in an oral vaccine. Journal of Food Science and Nutrition Research 5:591-593.

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Mycorrhizal fungi - beneficial symbionts

 

Goh, D., Martin, J.G.A, Banchini, C., MacLean, A.M., and F.  Stefani (2022) RocTest: A standardized method to assess the performance of root organ cultures in the propagation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Frontiers in Microbiology 13:937912.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.937912

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Kokkoris, V., Chagnon, P.L., Yildirir, G., Clarke, K., Goh, D., MacLean, A.M., Dettman, J., Stefani, F., and N. Corradi. (2021) Host identity influences nuclear dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Current Biology  21:S0960-9822 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.035

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Ghahremani, M., and A.M. MacLean (2020) Home sweet home - how mutualistic microbes modify root development to promote symbiosis. Journal of Experimental Botany  https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa607

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Lindsay, P. L., William, B.N., MacLean, A.M., and M.J. Harrison (2019) A Phosphate-Dependent Requirement for Transcription Factors IPD3 and IPD3L During Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Medicago truncatula. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32:1277-1290. 

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-01-19-0006-R
 

Watts-Williams, S., Emmett, B.D., Levesque-Trembley, V.L., MacLean, A.M., Sun, X., Satterlee, J.W., Fei, Z., and M.J. Harrison. (2018) Diverse Sorghum bicolor accessions show marked variation in growth and transcriptional responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant, Cell & Environment 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pce.13509

 

Sun, X., Chen, W., Ivanov, S., MacLean, A.M., Wight, H., Ramaraj, T., Mudge, J., Harrison, M.J., and Z. Fei. (2018) Genome and evolution of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Diversispora epigaea (formerly Glomus versiforme) and its bacterial endosymbionts. New Phytologist 221:1556-1573. 
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.15472

 

MacLean, A.M., Bravo, A., and M.J. Harrison. (2017). Plant Signaling and Metabolic Pathways Enabling Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. The Plant Cell 29:2319-2335.
http://www.plantcell.org/content/29/10/2319

 

Floss, D.S., Gomez, S.K., Park, H.J., MacLean, A.M., Müller, L.M., Bhattarai, K.K., Lévesque-Tremblay, V, Maldonado-Mendoza, I.E., and M. J. Harrison. (2017) A Transcriptional Program for Arbuscule Degeneration during AM Symbiosis Is Regulated by MYB1. Current Biology 27:1206-1212.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982217302725

Phytoplasma - an obligate pathogen of plants

Huang, W., MacLean, A.M., Sugio, A., Maqbool, A., Busscher, M., Cho, S.T., Kamoun, S., Kuo, C.H., Immink, R.G.H, and S.A. Hogenhout. (2021) Parasitic modulation of host development by ubiquitin-independent protein degradation. Cell 184:5201-5214.

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Pecher, P., Moro, G.,  Canale, M.C.,  Capdevielle, S., Singh, A.,  MacLean, A.M., Sugio, A., Kuo, C.H., Lopes, J.R.S., and S.A. Hogenhout. (2019) Phytoplasma SAP11 effector destabilization of TCP transcription factors differentially impact development and defence of Arabidopsis versus maize. PLoS Pathogens 15:e1008035. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008035

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Makarova, O., MacLean, A.M., and M. Nicolaisen. (2015) Phytoplasma adapt to the diverse environments of their plant and insect hosts by altering gene expression. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 91:81-87. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885576515300084
 

MacLean, A.M., Orlovskis, Z., Kowitwanich, K., Zdziarska, A.M., Angenent, G.C., Immink, R.G., and S. A. Hogenhout. (2014) Phytoplasma effector SAP54 hijacks plant reproduction by degrading MADS-box proteins and promotes insect colonization in a RAD23-dependent manner. PLoS Biology 12:e1001835. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001835
 

Sugio, A., Maclean, A.M., and S.A. Hogenhout.  (2014) The small phytoplasma virulence effector SAP11 contains distinct domains required for nuclear targeting and CIN-TCP binding and destabilization. New Phytologist 202:838-848. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.12721
 

Sugio, A., Kingdom, H.N., MacLean, A.M., Grieve, V.M., and S.A. Hogenhout.  (2011) Phytoplasma protein effector SAP11 enhances insect vector reproduction by manipulating plant development and defense hormone biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:E1254-E1263.
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/48/E1254

 

MacLean, A.M., Sugio, A., Makarova, O.V., Findlay, K.C., Grieve, V.M., Toth, R., Nicolaisen, M., and S.A. Hogenhout.  (2011) Phytoplasma effector SAP54 induces indeterminate leaf-like flower development in Arabidopsis plants. Plant Physiology 157:831-841.http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/157/2/831
 

Sugio, A., MacLean, A.M., Kingdom, H.N., Grieve, V.M., Manimekalai, R., and S.A. Hogenhout.  (2011) Diverse targets of phytoplasma effectors: from plant development to defense against insects. Annual Reviews of Phytopathology 49:175-195.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-phyto-072910-095323

Sinorhizobium - a free-living symbiont of legumes

diCenzo, G.C., MacLean A.M., Milunovic, B., Golding, G.B., and T. M. Finan (2014) Examination of prokaryotic multipartite genome evolution through experimental genome reduction. PLoS Genetics 10:e1004742.
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004742

 

MacLean, A.M., Haerty, W., Golding, G.B., and T.M. Finan.  (2011) The LysR-type PcaQ protein regulates expression of a protocatechuate-inducible ABC-type transport system in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Microbiology 157:2522-2533.
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.050542-0

 

MacLean, A.M., White, C.E., Fowler, J.E., and T.M. Finan.  (2009)  Identification of a hydroxyproline transport system in the legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti.  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1116-1127.
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-22-9-1116

 

MacLean, A.M., Anstey, M.I., and T.M. Finan.  (2008)  Binding site determinants for the LysR-type transcriptional regulator PcaQ in the legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti.  Journal of Bacteriology 190:1237-1246.
 https://jb.asm.org/content/190/4/1237

 

MacLean, A.M., Finan, T.M., and M.J. Sadowsky.  (2007)  Genomes of the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria of legumes.  Plant Physiology 144:615-622.
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/144/2/615

 

MacLean, A.M., MacPherson, G., Aneja, P., and T. M. Finan.  (2006)  Characterization of the beta-ketoadipate pathway in Sinorhizobium meliloti.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:5403-5413.
https://aem.asm.org/content/aem/72/8/5403.full.pdf

 

MacLellan, S.R., MacLean, A.M., and T. M. Finan.  (2006)  Promoter prediction in the rhizobia.  Microbiology 152:1751-1763.
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.28743-0

 

MacLellan, S.R., Zaheer, R., Sartor, A., MacLean, A.M., and T. M. Finan.  (2006)  Identification of a megaplasmid centromere reveals genetic structural diversity amongst the repABC family of basic replicons.  Molecular Microbiology 59:1559-1575. 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05040.x

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