Jijie Chai

A plant mechanism of hijacking pathogen virulence factors to trigger innate immunity

Zhifu Han, Tiancong Qi, Yu Xiao, 2024, Science.

New Biochemical Principles for NLR Immunity in Plants.

J. Parker, Wen Song, Jijie Chai, 2023, Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI.

Substrate-induced condensation activates plant TIR domain proteins

P. Schulze-Lefert, Zhifu Han, J. Jirschitzka, 2024, Nature.

Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain-containing proteins have NAD-RNA decapping activity

Xuemei Chen, Dongli Yu, Runlai Hang, 2024, Nature communications.

Cytoplasmic calcium influx mediated by plant MLKLs confers TNL-triggered immunity.

T. Maekawa, Junli Wang, Nicole Oelerich, 2024, Cell host & microbe.

A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels

P. Schulze-Lefert, J. Chai, E. Logemann, 2022, bioRxiv.