Publications

Shindo, T, Kaschani, F, Yang, F, Kovács, J, Tian, F, Kourelis, J, Hong, TN, Colby, T, Shabab, M, Chawla, R, Kumari, S, Ilyas, M, Hörger, AC, Alfano, JR, and Van der Hoorn, RAL (2016) Screen of non-annotated small secreted proteins of Pseudomonas syringae reveals a virulence factor that inhibits tomato immune proteases. PLoS Pathogens, 12(9):e1005874. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005874.
Ilyas, M, Hörger, AC, Bozkurt, TO, Van den Burg, HAm Kaschani, F, Kaiser, M, Belhaj, K, Smoker, M, Joosten, MHA, Kamoun, S, and Van der Hoorn, RAL (2015) Functional divergence of two secreted immune proteases of tomato. Current Biology, 25(17):2300-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.030.
Zhang, B, Tremousaygue, D, Denancé, N, Van Esse, HP, Hörger, AC, Dabos, P, Goffner, D, Thomma, BPHJ, Van der Hoorn, RAL, Tuominen, H (2014) PIRIN2 stabilizes cysteine protease XCP2 and increases susceptibility to the vascular pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal 79, 1009-101.
Hörger AC*, Fones HN*, and Preston GM (2013) The current status of the elemental defense hypothesis in relation to pathogens. Frontiers in Plant Science, 4:395. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00395.
Hörger AC, and Van der Hoorn RAL (2013) The structural basis of specific protease–inhibitor interactions at the plant–pathogen interface, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 23: 842-850.
Hörger AC, Ilyas M, Stephan W, Tellier A, Van der Hoorn RAL, and Rose LE (2012) Evolution of the tomato Rcr3 resistance gene family is driven by balancing selection for activation of the defence response. PLoS Genetics, 8(7): e1002813.  
Shindo, T, Misas-Villamil, JC, Hörger, AC, Song, J, and Van der Hoorn, RAL (2012) A role in immunity for Arabidopsis cysteine protease RD21, the ortholog of the tomato immune protease C14. PLoS One, 7, e29317.
Rose, LE, Grzeskowiak L*, Hörger AC*, Groth M, and Stephan W (2011) Targets of selection in a disease resistance network in wild tomatoes. Molecular Plant Pathology, 12: 921-927.  
*These authors contributed equally.