Two folds, many faces: The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia targets novel rice HMA domain-containing proteins

Josephine H. R. Maidment; Svenja C. Saile; Aurélien Bocquet; Céline Thivolle; Léo Bourcet; Lisa-Fatimatou Planel; Muriel Gelin; Thomas Kroj; André Padilla; Karine de Guillen; Stella Cesari

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1014382

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Two folds, many faces: The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia targets novel rice HMA domain-containing proteins

Josephine H. R. Maidment ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine H. R. Maidment, Svenja C. Saile

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France, Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8229-2718

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Svenja C. Saile ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine H. R. Maidment, Svenja C. Saile

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2258-3166

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Aurélien Bocquet,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France, Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0082-6098

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Céline Thivolle,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5048-3619

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Léo Bourcet,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France, Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4568-3543

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Lisa-Fatimatou Planel,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5159-7109

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Muriel Gelin,

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1320-8663

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Thomas Kroj,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3752-1788

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André Padilla,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9702-4612

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Karine de Guillen ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: karine.deguillen@cbs.cnrs.fr (KDG); stella.cesari@inrae.fr (SC)

Affiliation Centre de Biologie Structurale, Univ Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM U 1054, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5037-2115

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Stella Cesari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: karine.deguillen@cbs.cnrs.fr (KDG); stella.cesari@inrae.fr (SC)

Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8558-0371

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Two folds, many faces: The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia targets novel rice HMA domain-containing proteins

Josephine H. R. Maidment,
Svenja C. Saile,
Aurélien Bocquet,
Céline Thivolle,
Léo Bourcet,
Lisa-Fatimatou Planel,
Muriel Gelin,
Thomas Kroj,
André Padilla,
Karine de Guillen

Published: July 13, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1014382

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