MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
N-glycosylation Enables Smut Fungal Nge1 Orthologs to Prevent the Escape of Maize Evolved-PMEIs
Chibbhi Bhaskar, Minh-Quang Chau, Wei-Lun Tsai…·Lay-Sun Ma
This study shows that smut fungal effector Nge1 uses N-glycosylation to interact with host PMEIs, disrupting their inhibitory effect on PMEs and promoting fungal invasion.
DOI 10.1101/2025.04.01.646729