A secreted LysM effector protects fungal hyphae through chitin-dependent homodimer polymerization

• Andrea Sánchez-Vallet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Sánchez-Vallet, Hui Tian, Luis Rodriguez-Moreno

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Plant Pathology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-9503

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• Hui Tian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Sánchez-Vallet, Hui Tian, Luis Rodriguez-Moreno

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Luis Rodriguez-Moreno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Sánchez-Vallet, Hui Tian, Luis Rodriguez-Moreno

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2385-8782

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• Dirk-Jan Valkenburg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Raspudin Saleem-Batcha,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3361-823X

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• Stephan Wawra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Cologne, Institute for Plant Sciences, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany

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• Anja Kombrink,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Leonie Verhage,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6402-3605

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• Ronnie de Jonge,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Science4Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5065-8538

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• H. Peter van Esse,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3667-060X

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• Alga Zuccaro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Cologne, Institute for Plant Sciences, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-0114

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• Daniel Croll,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-380X

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• Jeroen R. Mesters ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jeroen.mesters@uni-luebeck.de (JRM); bart.thomma@wur.nl (BPHJT)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8532-6699

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• Bart P. H. J. Thomma

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jeroen.mesters@uni-luebeck.de (JRM); bart.thomma@wur.nl (BPHJT)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University& Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, University of Cologne, Institute for Plant Sciences, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4125-4181

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