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Sep 2026
A fungal effector hijacks conserved plant GSK3-like kinases to reprogram host cell identity
This work shows that the maize smut fungus Ustilago maydis deploys the effector Iag1 to reprogram host cell fate by targeting the conserved GSK3-like kinase BIN2, and indicates that short motifs provide an evolutionarily flexible strategy for targeting these central regulatory nodes.
Mamoona Khan, A. Pettkó-Szandtner, Pouria Bahrami et al.
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