Excited to share our latest study with @nicksnelders.bsky.social and @teamthomma.bsky.social!
We uncover the mode of action of the V. dahliae antimicrobial effector Ave1 and show that it binds LTA and disrupts bacterial membranes 🦠
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Gabriella Petti
PhD done! 🎓
Grateful to my examiners for the great discussion and to my amazing colleagues and friends for the support! ✨
Honoured to have contributed to this work by Andreas Keppler and the Vorholt lab 🦠🌱
Very happy to share results from the first year of my PhD: we found that the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii engages in a mutualistic interaction with Verticillium fungi. With @hroevenich.bsky.social and Urs.
Graphical abstract: 🟢 + 🍄= 💚
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Gabriella Petti
Gabriella Petti
Nature Plants - The plant general non-self response system is triggered by leaf microbiota members and, in turn, impacts their colonization.
Fungi deploy antimicrobial proteins (AMPs) to compete with microbes, including bacteria. But can bacteria fight back?
We @teamthomma.bsky.social found that some AMP-sensitive bacteria can repress AMP deployment, suggesting an unrecognized bacterial–fungal arms race.
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Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1
